chapter 6. what comes to your mind when you hear the following? emotions
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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 anxiety
Communication
Test Social evaluation
Debilitative anxiety (harmful)
Facilitative anxiety (helpful)
Linguistic deficit coding hypothesis