In the Video, at 09:18, Dr Stephen Krashen retell a story about his friends daughters, where he needs to take them to their school. He found one of them taking anxiety pills. When asked about it, she said it is due to her French class. When asked further, it is due to being force to talk in class when she is not ready to speak yet. He then come to a conclusion that these anxiety have the capabilities to cause bad pronunciation of the language that is being learned.

This conversation seems to imply that a high amount of anxiety can impact how a person learn. Being forced to speak causes the speaker try to use whatever knowledge that they on the second language, but the anxiety disturb said process and causes bad pronunciation to be produced. This prove how an affective filters such as being self-conscious impact how process of learning another language.

In 10:41, He further state about a community who lives between two countries who speak 24 language, yet they were able to understand and communicate with each other normally. When interviewed on how they learned the language, they said that they do not force each other until they are comfortable to speak by themself.

This seem to support the above conversation as these community were able to speak better when the amount of anxiety is nonexistent. They start speaking when they are more willing and confident, and these continue on until they are fluent in the other language. When the affective factor was removed from the learner, the result of attempting to learn another language had shown to be better.

The Real life example was taken from a video on Youtube titled "Dr. Stephen Krashen, a Conversation About Language Acquisition". The livestream was streamed on 25 Aug 2022 and lasted for 48:30. The two individual in the video is Steve Kaufmann, an internet personality who focuses on helping others in learning language, and Dr. Stephen Krashen, an American Linguist. 

The livestream was a collaboration between the both of them to talked about certain questions on language acquisition such as when is the right time to start talking in the second language and how much has the language acquisition has changed throughout the years. They exchanged ideas on what influence the process of language acquisition and even let viewers to ask them question regarding things that wish to understand about the acquisition of language.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7WUxvpPIKQ

2. Learn Languages Online. Learn how from The Linguist, Steve Kaufmann. (2003, December 5). The Linguist. https://www.thelinguist.com/

3. LingQ. (2019, March 4). https://www.lingq.com/en/about

4. Hoque, E. (2017). An introduction to the second language acquisition. Language Acquisition, 1-23. 

 The real example seems to suggest on how related it is the mental state of our mind to the process of language acquisition. A high amount of anxiety seems to derail the process of constructing a proper sentences, as it obstruct the brain to function normally. The term language anxiety is coined for this phenomenon, as it bring devastating effect on performance in oral communication Henter, Ramona (2014).  On the other hand, when a person in a communities are less expected to be fluent and not pressured to learn, their ability to receive input from the language increases and become a smother process for their brain. The brain become much more accepting of the foreign language, being able to give output that are comprehensible to others and can reach a higher level of understanding of the language.

The concept of affective factors gives an explanation as to why our brain is less accepting of the input that is given to us when we are under distress. In my personal opinion, it is rather important for people to prevent pressuring the people who wish to learn another language. This action of forcing other to do something they are yet ready for torment their minds on whether to give up or keep on learning the language. It is understandable however, as being forced to do something will make us panic, which in turn might demoralized us further if the task that was given to us ends up in a failure. These failure will only clog the mind of the learner, making them self-conscious of their own ability and distance themself from the language, as they are now less likely to speak out their thought due to fear of failure. Fear of failure will only bring harmful effect to the learner, as failure is a way that show the learner is learning the language and the attempt to converse in the second language will lessen in due to embarrassment.

In conclusion, the way a person acquire a second language varies between one another. Living with a communities which speak another language that is different than us will give a different result than learning the language in a classroom with a teacher. When we began learning another language, we attempt to use feature of our first language such as word structure when constructing sentences in the second language. The real world example showcase how the affective factor such as Anxiety take a role in helping and slowing down the process of language acquisition. Ultimately, the improvement of our second language could be observed in whether others who speak the language could understand and comprehend what we intend to convey.

1. Krashen, S. (1981). Second language acquisition. Second Language Learning, 3(7), 19-39. 

2. Krashen, S. (1982). Principles and practice in second language acquisition. 

3. Krashen, S. D. (1981). Bilingual education and second language acquisition theory. Schooling and language minority students: A theoretical framework, 51-79. 

4. Henter, R. (2014). Affective factors involved in learning a foreign language. Procedia-social and behavioral sciences, 127, 373-378.