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