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Personality Factors in Language Learning
Jennifer CastilloNatalia Molina
Affective Domain
• Affective Domain refers to the emotional side of human behavior
Five Levels of Affectivity
• Receiving• Responding• Valuing• Organization• Value System
Self-Esteem
• “…it expresses an attitute of approval or disapproval, and indicates th extent to which an individual believes himself to be capable, significant, successful and worthy...”
Categorized into three levels
• First Level• General or global s.e relatively stable in mature
adults and resistent to change• Second Level• Situational or specific s.e refers to s.e in a certain
situation• Third Level• Task s.e refers to s.e while performing a specific
task in a situation
The chicken or egg question
• Does high self- esteem cause language success or does language success cause high self-esteem?
Inhibitions
Risk TakingSelf-esteem and risk taking go…
Anxiety
• Synonyms include: worry, tension, self-doubt
• Debilitative anxiety: “text anxiety” undermines your ability to perform a task
• Facilitative anxiety: provides the extra push to get the job done
Social transactions
• Means to overpass yourself as wellas to get to others
Empathy ImitationAgressionExtroversion
Empathy
2 ways of achieving it
• Awarness and knowledge of one’s feelings
• Identification with another person
* You need to learn and love yourself first.
Extroversion
• Can be characterized asOutgoingSociableNeeded for attentionadaptable
Introversion
Can be described as:
QuiteReservedisolated
Myers-Briggs Character types
Extroversion (E) Introversion (I)Sociability ConcentrationInteraction limited relationshipsMultiplicity of IntensiveRelationships Internal eventsExternal events
Sensing (S) Intuition (N)Expirience HunchesDown to earth FutureFact fantasySensible Imagination
Thinking (T) Feeling (F)Principles PersonalObjective HumaneCritique Good or BadAnalysis Sympathy
Judging (J) Perceiving (P)Decided Let life happenDecision-making Adapt as you go Planned Something will turn upWrap it up There’s plenty of time
Desire to be committed in a particular aspect of life
Six needs to achieve motivation
1. Need of exploration2. Need of manipulation3. Need for activity4. Need for stimulation5. Need for knowledge6. Need for ego enhancement
Instrumental and integrative motivation
• They are 2 basic types of motivation
Instrumental- refers to acquiring a language
Integrative- Get involved with culture of the language
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