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Affective Factores in FLL. Affective Factors in FLL. Learning a language means adding a new layer to your own personality Your whole being is involved and affected. Feelings play an important role in learning, particularly in learning a new language. It is not the same to learn in
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Affective Factors in FLL • Learning a language means adding a new layer to your own personality • Your whole being is involved and affected. • Feelings play an important role in learning, particularly in learning a new language. • It is not the same to learn in • a L2 context or • a FL context.
Affective factors in FLL • Anxiety • Self-esteem • Self-efficacy and attribution • Motivation
Motivation: a dynamic model • Motivation is an internal state of the individual influenced by needs and/or beliefs which generate an interest and desire to achieve a goal, and moves the individual to attain it with a continued effort.
Motivation • Two general sets of motivation in FLL • Reasons to learn • Integrative motivation: a desire to learn the language in order to relate to the target language culture. • Instrumental motivation: a desire to learn the language for practical reasons. • Sources of motivation • Intrinsic motivation: a desire born in the learner. • Extrinsic motivation: a desire impelled by an external agent (teacher, father, boy/girlfriend,…)