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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 Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 1 Benjamin Bloom: • Receiving environment awareness • Responding voluntarily Placing worth, beliefs or attitudes • Valuing • Organisation Hierarchy System • Value System Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 2 Communication Receiving Language Acquisition SL Learner’s Awareness Responding Interpersonal Exchange Valuing Context of Communication Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 3 Inhibition Anxiety Self-esteem PERSONALITY FACTORS Extroversion Risk - taking Empathy Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 4 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. Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 5 LEVELS General or global Situational or specific Stable in mature adults Appraisals of oneself Change - through active & extended therapy Defined by the situation Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández Task Particular task within specific situation 6 INHIBITION • Defenses to protect the ego. • Age - newborn - identity childhood - awareness, responding, valuing adolescence - fragile ego • Higher self-esteem + ego strenght lower defense • Weak self-esteem protection in a weak or fragile ego inhibition Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 7 EGO LANGUAGE Personal, egoistic nature of SLA ADAPTIVE Lower the inhibition Meaningful LA Thick Thin Ego Boundaries relevant Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 8 Openness Vulnerability thin ego boundaries Ambiguity Tolerance different pathways SUCCESS Hard-driving thick ego systematic boundaries perfectionistic Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 9 RISK-TAKING Intelligent guesses. Impulsivity - positive effects on language success Key factor of successful SLL High risk-taking - positive results High motivated people - not high risk takers Risk taking & self-esteem - silent students Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 10 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) Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 11 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 Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 12 Facilitative anxiety • Concerns some apprehension over a task to be accomplished • Positive factor • Key to success • Competitiveness Deliberative anxiety • Anxiety Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 13 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 Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 14 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. Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 15 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 Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 16 MYERS-BRIGGS CHARACTER TYPES Style dichotomies: Introversion / extroversion Sensing / intuition Thinking / feeling Judging / perceiving Pycholinguistics - Hermilo Gómez Hernández 17