Affective factors seem to be one of foreign language teachers' biggest worries.
According to this author, these factors interact to form patterns which generally operate in the students' subconscious. It is related to how the learner reacts in relation to the language itself and to the people who speak this language. To make it clear, we could think of people who would reject learning a foreign language for political reasons. When we think of teaching an FL to children and teens, we realize how present these factors are in our daily work. In addition to all these inner conflicts, as they reach the 5th grade, students have to face a change in the school curriculum organization as well as in the ways they are to interact with their teachers.