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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. The intrinsic side: (personality) Extrinsic side: ( sociocultural ). The affective domain:.
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Personality factors Chapter 6
What comes to your mind when you hear the following? Emotions
There are 2 facets of affective domain of SLA • The intrinsic side: (personality) • 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: • Receiving • Responding • Valuing • Organization of values • Value system
The relation between language and emotion Pike (1967) states that Language is behaviour A human activity where we cannot divide from nonverbal activity
What is self-esteem? Self-esteem = self confidence = knowledge of yourself = self-efficacy
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 suppression • High self-esteem= lower defences • Low self-esteem= high resistance
Language ego • The very personal nature of second language acquisition
Risk taking • Willingness to try out hunches about the language and take the risk of being wrong
Anxiety • The subjective feeling of tension , apprehension, nervousness and worry
Debilitative anxiety (harmful) • Facilitative anxiety (helpful)