Classroom management should be based on a rigid hierarchy where the teacher is the only source of knowledge, limiting opportunities for peer interaction among students.

The use of authentic materials is generally discouraged in beginning levels of English learning, as students should be exposed primarily to simplified sentences.

The primary goal of the English teacher should be to minimize the influence of the students' native cultural identity, encouraging alignment with the values of the target language.

The "Affective Filter" hypothesis, proposed by Krashen and related to Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device, states that anxiety and low motivation can hinder the effective processing of language input.