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IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING
P.60-63Brown p. 154-160
EXTROVERTED PERSON VS INTROVERTED PERSON.
SELF-ESTEEM. INHIBITIONS.
An extrovert: is outgoing, interested, social and seeking excitement.
An introvert: is more reserved, less outgoing, less social.
This is measured through questionnaires.
DavidSarahMarcusMariaJohn
DisagreeDisagreeAgreeAgreeAgreeI am the life of the party.
DisagreeDisagreeAgreeDisagreeAgreeI enjoy being the center of attention.
DisagreeDisagreeAgreeAgreeAgreeI am skilled in handling social situations.
DisagreeAgreeDisagreeAgreeAgreeI like to be where the action is.
DisagreeAgreeDisagreeAgreeAgreeI make new friends easily.
AgreeDisagreeAgreeDisagreeDisagreeI am quiet around strangers.
AgreeAgreeAgreeAgreeDisagreeI don't like to draw attention to myself.
AgreeAgreeAgreeDisagreeDisagreeI don't like to party on the weekends.
AgreeAgreeDisagreeAgreeDisagreeI like to work independently.
AgreeAgreeDisagreeDisagreeDisagreeI often enjoy spending time by myself.
100% Introvert70% Introvert50% Extravert50% Introvert(Ambivert)
70% Extravert100% ExtravertScore
Some researches found that in some learning situations the quite observant learner may have greater success.
It is self-confidence, knowledge of oneself, and reflections of self as seen from interactions with others.
People derive self-esteem from the accumulation of experiences with themselves and others and the world around them.
GLOBAL SELF-ESTEEM: general and stable assessment one makes about his worth over time and many situations.
SPECIFIC SELF-ESTEEM: one’s self judgment in particular situations like social interaction, work, home, athletic ability..
TASK SELF-ESTEEM: relates to tasks within specific situations (in education one subject, or skill in a certain sport,…etc)
They are defined as built-in defences to protect the ego.
The process of defences to protect the ego start at adolescence and continue to adulthood.
People with high self-esteem have ego strength and lower inhibitions and vice versa.
Language ego: an identity a person develops in reference to the language he/she speaks.
Second language learning requires that learners take on a new identity with the new acquired competence. Therefore, learners need to have a flexible language ego in order to lower inhibitions that may block language learning because it is considered as a threat to the ego.
Research in this area found mixed and sometimes conflicting results. Why?
The major difficulty in studying personality factors is the identification and measurement of the factors.
Personality factors affect only acquisition of conversational skills not academic skills.
Some studies focused on measuring the communicative ability and some measure the grammatical ability.
