I feel that in some ways there are teachers who have an effect on children that can only be described as evil. It is because when they design a curriculum that only favors the fast processors, they are making the slower processors feel less than they are. That is evil. We need to call out teachers who shame students for not being able to process language as fast as the few in the classroom who can.
Unless the affective filter level is low, and unless the child is relaxed and emotionally involved with trying to understand the message instead of intellectually involved in thinking about the language as discussed earlier, then true acquisition cannot happen.
Every person longs to be loved and to know that they are lovable and capable of being loved. That statement is true in life and so should be true in our classrooms. Love is the premise underlying the OWI/Invisibles curriculum that I developed in India in 2016.