Abstract: In the 1980s, Krashen put forward Affective Filter Hypothesis. He believed that people acquired a language once the “comprehensible input” penetrated the affective filter and reached the learner’s innate Language Acquisition Device(LAD). However, it is regrettable that little research has been made in English teaching in primary schools by means of the Affective Filter Hypothesis .The research objective of this paper is primary school students, the approach to the research is Affective Filter Hypothesis. Aiming at the problems exsiting in primary school English teaching, this paper probes into factors that influence English teaching and the application of Affective Filter Hypothesis in English teaching in primary schools. It also puts forward some suggestions to the problems concerned.
Key words: the Affective Filter Hypothesis; SLA(Second Language Acquisition) ; problems; primary schools; suggestions
摘要: 20 世纪80年代，克拉申提出了情感过滤理论。他认为只有当可理解输入通过情感过滤进入学习者的语言习得机制时，人们才能习得这种语言。然而值得注意的是，很少有用情感过滤理论来研究小学英语教学的。这篇论文以小学生为研究对象，以情感过滤理论为研究方法. 针对小学英语教学存在的问题，探讨了情感过滤理论在小学英语教学中的应用，研究了影响英语教学的因素以及情感过滤理论在小学的应用，并针对这一问题提出了一些建议。
关键词: 情感过滤假说；二语习得；问题；小学；建议
There are many factors affecting foreign language teaching and SLA, but it is impossible to find a factor which will suit all the students who have different educational and cultural backgrounds, learning styles, interests, etc. We firmly believe that second language acquisition theories are of relevance and of a great help to foreign language teaching in China, but at the same time we have realized that we should try to use second language acquisition theories in accordance with the special requirements of the students in foreign language teaching in China. The purpose of the use of second language acquisition theories in primary schools is to lay a solid foundation in pupils liking English in their childhood so that their English will not shake in future English learning , and it will bring up pupils’ growing interest in English. ( Xue Rong, 1992:2 ). Primary school education is basic instruction. It has far-reaching influence in one’s future education. For example, if English teachers in primary schools use English affective teaching in practice , they may arouse pupils’ affective sympathy, and pupils will like them and English taught by them, thus they would like learn English hard and well. This favorable English learning tendency will become a stronger drive and greater confidence in oneself in one’s late English learning. And they will never be afraid of learning English in junior schools any more, on the contrary , they will be more active in many kinds of English learning activities in English class because he/she has some successful experiences in learning English in primary schools. Well begun is half done. We should believe it. Since second language acquisition(SLA) is a broad and open-ended field that contains great potential for constant improvement , as long as someone can get some inspiration and hints from it, this paper achieves its goal.
