Abstract
This paper explores the current perspectives of teaching English taking into consideration the benefits of applying affective learning strategies. Affective strategies are a set of techniques that seek to facilitate learning by lessen the affective filter and increasing motivation to face language anxiety. The paper revises the latest discussions about the elements of the affective domain and how addressing them could increase learners’ opportunities to participate more meaningfully in the learning process of acquiring and developing the skills in a foreign language.
 
 Keywords: affective strategies, social estrategies, affective domain, learning objectives
Highlights
New educational trends are highlighting the impact of emotions and feelings in students’ learning process and how addressing this affective-social aspect could improve students’ performance and results
This paper focuses on the third domain and its factors, as well as on suggesting some ideas to introduce affective strategies into the EFL classroom setting
The taxonomies related to the domains help set realistic and observable learning objectives for our students
Summary
New educational trends are highlighting the impact of emotions and feelings in students’ learning process and how addressing this affective-social aspect could improve students’ performance and results. The author revised articles related with the acquisition of foreign languages in seven on-line international databases from 2002 to 2012. She found that motivation, attitude and anxiety were the three words more researched on this regard. Henter addresses these words as affective factors. She is not the first author to coin this term since Elli (1194) had addressed empathy and anxiety as aspects that influence the affective domain of learning.
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