Personality factors

Chapter 6

What comes to your mind when you hear the following?

Emotions

Mind

Your Name

Challenge

Fear

love

There are 2 facets of affective domain of SLA

1. The intrinsic side: (personality)

2. Extrinsic side: (sociocultural)

The affective domain:Affect: refers to emotions or feelings

The affective domain: the emotional side of human behaviour that could be attached to the cognitive side

Levels of affectivity:1. Receiving2. Responding3. Valuing4. Organization of values5. Value system

The relation between language and emotionPike (1967) states that

Language is behaviour

A human activity where we cannot divide from nonverbal

activity

Affective factors in SLA

self-esteem

global

Task Situational

Specific

What is self-esteem?

Self-esteem = self confidence = knowledge

of yourself = self-efficacy

Attribution theory and self-efficacy

Attribution

Ability

Effort

Luck

Difficulty of task

Self-efficacy

When the learner feels he or she could carry out a given task

Willingness to communicate

The intention to initiate communication given a

choice

Inhibition Means prevention or

suppressionHigh self-esteem= lower

defencesLow self-esteem= high

resistance

Language egoThe very personal nature of second language acquisition

Risk takingWillingness to try out

hunches about the language and take the risk

of being wrong

Anxiety The subjective feeling of

tension , apprehension, nervousness and worry

Anxiety

TraitPermanent

LanguageSituational

state

StateRelated to

act

Components of anxietyCommunicatio

n

Test Social evaluation

Debilitative anxiety (harmful)

Facilitative anxiety (helpful)

Linguistic deficit coding hypothesis