Individual Differences in L2 Learning

Individual Differences in L2 Learning

1. Personality

   • Personality Factors
     • Perseverance: we have to work hard to achieve our desires we must put a lot of effort and energy to achieve the goal.
     • Acculturation: The learner’s adaptation to the culture is deemed important as the culture itself becomes the very core of language teaching
     • Risk-taking: the development trait that consists of moving towards something without thinking of the consequences
     • Self-esteem:Strength here refers to the belief in our own capabilities by having self-esteem
     • Sociability: To be introverted vs extroverted

2. Identity and ethnic group affiliation

   • Ethnic identity refers to the subjective experience embracing the feelings, experiences, and behaviors through which people position their membership in a single or multiple ethnic groups.

3. Learning Styles

   • DIVERGENT LEARNING STYLE
     • Imaginative capacity, the ease of responding to concrete situations from various perspectives
   • CONVERGENT LEARNING STYLE
     • Students perform well on hands-on projects, information sorting, and memorization exercises.
   • ACCOMMODATIVE LEARNING STYLE
     • They prefer methodological strategies such as group work, imaginative exercises, works of artistic expression, reading and discussing themes.
   • ASSIMILATIVE LEARNING STYLE
     • they are characterized because they favor conceptualization and abstraction

4. Aptitude

   • The ability to learn languages ​​consists of four independent skills
     • The ability to encode phonetics
     • The ability to learn by repetition
     • Grammatical sensitivity
     • The ability to learn a language inductively

5. Intelligence

   • Multiple Intelligences
     • Logical-Mathematical
     • Spatial
     • Bodily-Kinesthetic
     • MUsical
     • Interpersonal
     • Linguistic
     • Intrapersonal

6. Learner beliefs

   • Example: if a student believes that she/he doesn't have very good aptitude for language learning, she/he may not make much effort to learn the language.

7. Age of acquisition

   • Young learners learn faster
   • Adult learnes learn slower

8. Motivation and attitudes

   • Motivationn is one of the factors that influence his/her success in acquiring the L2
   • Attitude. a student need to have a positive attitude,positive attitude is very helpful to facilitate learning.

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