INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN L2 ACQUISITION

1. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN L2 ACQUISITION Rod Ellis, 2003, Page 73-78

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3. Individual Differences In L2 Acquisition

4. Language Aptitude • Can be described as a natural ability to learn a learner language, deals with cognitive ability. • This ability might be different between one person and another.

5. Language Aptitude

6. Phonemic Coding Ability • The ability to identify the sounds of foreign language. • Example : ability to find differences between native language sounds and foreign language sounds. • The ability to handle sounds-symbols relationship. • Example : ability to read phonetic writing.

7. Grammatical Sensitivity • The ability to recognize grammatical function of words in sentences • Example :ability to determine the subject and object of a sentence.

8. Inductive Language Learning Ability • The ability to recognize patterns of correspondence and relations between form and meaning • Example: ability to recognize that in English “to” represent direction, and “at” represent location.

9. Rote Learning Ability • The ability to form and remember associations between stimuli • Example : ability to memorize English vocabularies

10. How does language aptitude relate to the process of interlanguage development? • The components of language aptitude may be implicated in different stages of processing. • phonemic coding ability seem relevant to the processing of input, grammatical sensitivity and inductive learning language ability relevant to the central processing stage involving interlanguage construction and memory to the storage and access of language.

11. Motivation The aspect of individual differences in L2 acquisition that involves the attitudes and affective stages that influence the degree of effort that learner make to learn an L2

12. Motivation

13. Instrumental Motivation • A kind of motivation in learning an L2 for some functional reasons. • Examples : to pass an examination, to get a job

14. Integrative Motivation • A kind of motivation to learn an L2 because the learner is interested in people or culture represented by the target language. • Example : English speaking Canadians tend learn French

15. Resultative Motivation • A kind of motivation which is the result of learning process. • Example : a learner will feel more or less motivated depends on what kind of achievement the learner gets as a result of learning process.

16. Intrinsic Motivation • A kind of motivation which involves excitement and maintenance of curiosity as a result of learner’s particular interest and feeling of personally involved in learning activities. • Example : learner will fell more motivated if the learner enjoys the learning activities.

17. Learning Strategies • The particular approaches or techniques that learner employs to try to learn an L2. • They can be behavioural or mental and typically problem-oriented.

18. Learning Strategies

19. Learning Strategies • Cognitive strategies, involved in the analysis, synthesis, or transformation of learning materials. • Example : recombination • Metacognitivestrategis, involved in planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning. • Example : selective attention • Social/affective strategies, concern inn the way learner choose to interact with other speaker. • Example : questioning for clarification

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