The Griffiths and Keohane article laid out a number of interesting activities related to emotional status.  Affective activities can be quite effective in the language learning classroom.   Students might benefit from engaging in these sorts of activities and find the classroom to be a friendlier and more motivating space.

The article has a number of excellent activity ideas-

• Changing other learners’ mood by sourcing jokes from students.
• Building relationships with other learners by describing themselves using certain affective adjectives.
•  Demonstrating appropriacy  and methods to avoid answering questions.
• How to sympathize with negative and positive comments by other learners int he classroom.

Andrew Sansone, Catherine Purdy, Phil Martin, Ben C, Jerry Kim