Lowering The Affective Filter

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A teaching methodology created by Georgi Lozanov. Lozanov addressed the issue of affective filter, trying to reduce this for the students as much as possible. He believed that in a state of calm, helped by the use of music, that students would be more susceptible to the learning information presented to them.  [Read more]

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  Also in the 1970s la señal came up with a new methodology called "Suggestopedia". As psychological theory was developing, one of the ideas that came up was something called ?the effective filter?. Basically, the effective filter is a barrier to learning. It's the reasons why we inhibit our learning of a particular language. There are two main elements to the effective filter, two sets of factors, if you like, those are known as internal and external factors. The external factors to learning, the reasons why we have barriers to learning, may be just simple things such as external noise. So, people talking to us while we're trying to learn and so on and so forth. Perhaps more important are these internal factors and the internal factors one of the main things here is our previous...  [Read more]

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Bloom initially divided these into three categories or domains. They are the Cognitive domain, related to the mind or thinking. The psycho-motor domain, related to the body and movement and the affective domain, related to emotions. mind, body, spirit. These have been developed and added to over the years.  [Read more]

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