AFFECTIVE DOMAIN - SLA

Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández

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AFFECTIVE DOMAIN - SLA

Intrinsic Side Extrinsic Side

Personality Factors

Socio-cultural Variables

emotional side of human behaviour yustaposed to the cognitive side


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Benjamin Bloom:

• Receiving environment awareness

• Responding voluntarily

• Valuing Placing worth, beliefs or attitudes

• Organisation

Hierarchy System

• Value System


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SL Learner’s Awareness

Receiving

Responding

Valuing

Communication

Language Acquisition

Interpersonal Exchange

Context of Communication


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PERSONALITY

FACTORS

Self-esteem

Inhibition

Risk - taking

Anxiety

Empathy

Extroversion


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SELF-ESTEEM

• A need for phatic communication

• Attitude of approval or disapproval, belief of capability, significance, successfulness and worthiness

• A personal judgement of worthiness expressed by the individual towards himself.


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LEVELS

General or global

Situational or specific

Task

Stable in mature adults

Change - through active & extended therapy

Appraisals of oneself

Defined by the situation

Particular task within specific situation


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INHIBITION

• Defenses to protect the ego.

• Age - newborn - identity childhood - awareness, responding, valuingadolescence - fragile ego

• Higher self-esteem + ego strenght lower defense

• Weak self-esteem inhibition protection in a weak or fragile ego


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EGO

LANGUAGE ADAPTIVEPersonal, egoistic nature of SLA

Meaningful LA

Lower the inhibition

Ego Boundaries relevant

Thin

Thick


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Openness Vulnerability Ambiguity Tolerance

Hard-driving systematic perfectionistic

thin ego boundaries

thick ego boundaries

different pathways SUCCESS


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RISK-TAKING

Intelligent guesses.

Impulsivity - positive effects on language successKey factor of successful SLL

High risk-taking - positive results

High motivated people - not high risk takers

Risk taking & self-esteem - silent students


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ANXIETY

Uneasiness, frustration, self-doubt, apprehension or worry

Levels:

• Deepest or global - predisposition to be anxious (trait anxiety)

• Momentary or situational - in relation to some particular events or act (state anxiety)


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Components of FL Anxiety:

• Communication apprehension - inability to express one’s self

• Fear of negative social evaluation ( a need to make a positive social impression on others)

• Test anxiety - academic evaluation

It is considered as a negative effect on LL process


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Facilitative anxiety

• Concerns some apprehension over a task to be accomplished• Positive factor • Key to success• Competitiveness

Deliberative anxiety

• Anxiety


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EMPATHY• Putting yourself into someone’s else shoes

• Understanding and feeling what another person is understanding and feeling.

• Language - primary means for empathising

• Projection of own’s personality into the personality of another to understand him/her better

• Empathy - detachment / sympathy - agreement or harmony


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Key characteristics:

• Awareness and knowledge of one’s own feelings• Identification with another person

Empathy and the communication process:

Affective and cognitive understanding (permeable ego)

Cognitive and affective set production is a touchy topic.


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EXTROVERSION

A deep-seated need to receive ego enhancement, self-esteem & sense of wholeness from other people.

Teacher’s consideration about the students’ passivity in the classroom - cultural norms.

Extroversion = ego protection

Introverted person - high empathy

Extroversion / introversion helps/hinders SLA


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MYERS-BRIGGS CHARACTER TYPES

Style dichotomies:

Introversion / extroversion

Sensing / intuition

Thinking / feeling

Judging / perceiving

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