Affective Factors in Second Language Acquisition and Its Application to Foreign Language Teaching

Abstract

There are many factors influencing learner's foreign language ability. With the basic principles of psycholinguistics, the author mainly analyses the affective factors in second language acquisition and put forward some suggestions for developing the positive role of the affective factors so as to increase the efficiency of foreign language teaching and develop students' ability to use a foreign language. Keywords-affective factors; second language acquisition; application; foreign language teaching