Teacher’s Role in Affective Affirmation of Students in English Learning Classes

Foreign language teaching should be aimed at establishing meaningful communication in theclassroom and first requirement towards this end is an affective affirmation of the student. Thesignificance of the affective variables lies in the impact on how we teach second languages.Furthermore, the English teachers play crucial role in increasing students’ interest andinvolvement in the tasks in English classes as he/she is a source of inspiration and the mainspringfor the motives which induce in students the desire to enrich their own minds, thus putting themon the track to effective learning. This study investigates through a literature survey the effect ofaffective variables-including personality factors such as motivation, anxiety, self–esteem, risktaking,inhibition and empathy on learners’ learning rate, and the teacher’s role in dealing witheach in e-learning classes. As a result, it is found that all of the affective variables are interwovenand cannot be considered independently. Also, the affective affirmation of the learner can highlyhelp his success in English language learning. English teachers should, therefore, pay moreattention to personality factors of learners and shouldn’t ignore the importance of each in Englishclasses. Some suggestions are put forth for teachers for performing in English learning classes.

Keywords:

motivation , anxiety , self- esteem , risk- taking , inhibition and empathy