Azizi, NabilBoulmaiz, Djallel2018-10-312018-10-312018http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5971The affective filter hypothesis is one of the hypotheses that made a link between emotions and second language acquisition. When considering this hypothesis while teaching, teachers will help their learners overcome many problems concerning their participation in oral tasks, or in other words the ability to be active most of the time inside the classroom. This study aimed at discovering the extent to which teachers of oral expression are making use of this hypothesis. To conduct this study, a questionnaire was administered to teachers of oral expression (or those who had the opportunity to teach oral expression before). Moreover, to support the results in the first questionnaire, another questionnaire was administered to 1st year students. The findings show that although teachers pay attention to some emotions, they do not consider the AFH while teaching. This study, hence, recommends that teachers of oral expression need to be acquainted with the current researches and studies about the effect of emotions on developing the students' productive skills, mainly speaking.enClassroom participationAffective filter hypothesisEmotionLanguage acquisitionOther