Abstract: With the rapid all-round development in China in the last decades, the use of foreign language has become increasingly widespread in our daily life and social communication. Many learners have got an urgent need to learn a foreign language to improve their ability to adapt to the development of society and the requirement of career. Therefore, it is important to conduct a further study on how to learn a foreign language well and what factors would affect foreign language learning. Affective factors are the crucial aspect to affect learning outcome. It is fickle and intangible factor that different learners are affected by different affective factors. This paper aims to analyze the affective factors in SLA, including motivation, personality and attitude and explore their implications for EFL teaching. Moreover, this paper proposes to help people understand that creating a great interest, knowing one’s personality and having a correct attitude are the prerequisites for stimulating learner’s motivation, adjusting student’s learning styles and improving learning outcomes. |
