Cognitive Influences on Language Learning

Cognitive Influences on Language Learning

1. Refer to the mental conditions, strategies or process which the learner has to acces.

   • • learninig goals can be attained in diferrent ways
   • Point to be considers:Capacity,communicate meanings should be abilities
     • For strong and weak learners

2. G FACTOR

   • Speak a second langauge is synonymous of highly intelligent
     • Foreign learners often fail to reach a native competence
   • as known as intelligent
     • Is intelligence seen as synonympous of intelligence?
       • No, Because almost everybody learns their FLA.

3. Genesse (1976)Intelligence may influence the acquisition of some skills.

   • Such as Reading, writing, language analysis and vocabulary study.
   • Intelligence= Stron factor=SLA in classroom intelligence.

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   • Natural Ability in language learning specially in a place when english is spoken
     • Skeahan Believed aptitude is consistently the most successful preditor of L.L success
   • Personality, aptitude is super importatant. Is going to define your learning

5. Skehan (1982) Learner´s has the ability to analize the incoming language

   • Also was proved the size of the working is not related to learning success.

6. Cognitive style

   • Doe snot exist close relationship between cognitive style and academic achievement.
   • Refers to the manner in which the learners percieves, monitors, conceptualises and recall information
     • The role of cultural background on the learning style
       • also factors such as age, sex and level of educacion.

7. Learning Strategies

   • By oxford: steps taken by the learner to aid the acwuisition, storage and retrivial of information
   • Are the particular approaches or techniques, that learners employ to try to learn an L2
     • Contribute to the main goal, expand the role of teachers, can be taught, are often conscious.
   • Strategy Training
     • Is arguably the area of most important to us as classroom teacher
     • Out of class learning strategies
       • such as going to the cinema  to see original version, reading newspapers in english.
       • we learn english not only inside of the class, we can find many opportunities outside

8. For practical purposes we refer to cognitive, memory comprensation, metacognitive, social, affective and comminication

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