The Impact of Web-based Education on Students’ Affective Filter to Enhance ESP Learning: The Case of Third Year Fundamental Chemistry Students at Djillali Liabes University of Sidi-Bel-Abbes

Abstract

The rapid expansion of online teaching and learning in the globe due to the Covid-19 drove this research to investigate the impact of web-based education on third year chemistry students’ affective filter at Djillali Liabes University of Sidi Bel Abbes. The work targeted revealing which classroom supported the students’ low affective filter. Thus, qualitative and quantitative data were gathered and analysed to determine the environment that promoted the students’ higher motivation and self-confidence joined with low levels of anxiety. Hence, both findings denoted that the e-classroom boosted the students’ comprehensible input due to the six strategies used as virtual implications for the ESP students’ low affective filter.