Affective Influences on Language Learning

Affective Influences on Language Learning

1. Attitudes and motivations: theoretical perspectives

   • Motivation of learning theory
     • Affected by motivational variables
       • Teachers
       • Subject
       • Student's personality
       • Group dinamics
   • The need of achievement theory
     • The need to keep our abilities as high as possible.
       • High achievers
         • Enjoy to a challenges learning experiences.
       • Low achievers
         • Had discouraging or unsuccessful learning experiences
   • Attribution theory
     • How people perceive events (Heider, 1944)
       • Locus of control
         • Sense
         • Control of his/her learning actions
       • High internal locus of control
         • Out of one's control
         • Strong tendencies in problem-solving task (Williams and Burden, 1997)

2. Types of motivaion in Lanuage Learning

   • Extrinsic
     • External Sources
     • Methods and materials teaching
   • Intrisic
     • Internal Sources
   • Integrative
     • Personal interest of the culture
     • Integrate to the target language culture
   • Instrumental
     • Practical considerations
     • Advantags of the foreing language
       • Career promotions
   • Global
     • Overall orientation towards the foreign language
       • Educational experiences
       • Social factors
       • Teacher's attitudes
   • Situational
     • Learning context
     • Classroom enviroment
   • Task motivation
     • How a learner approaches a specific task

3. Components of motivation

   • Effort
     • The setting and desire to achieve goals
   • Attitude
     • Person's inclination
       • Predisposition to the learning process
   • The Social Milieu
     • Additive learning situations
       • High status language
     • Subtractive learning situations
       • MInority language groups
   • Individual differences
     • Level of achievement
       • Intelligence
       • Apttitude
       • Motivation
       • Situational anxiety
   • Outcomes
     • Competence in second langauge
     • Concerning attitudes
   • Motivation
     • Attitudinal element toward the target language

4. Success and Motivation

   • Resultative hypothesis
     • Explain the conflict result
     • Motivation is the cause of success learing

5. Attitudes and Motivation: Classroom perspectives

   • Teachers responsability
     • Encourage students
     • Facilitator
     • Provider materials
     • Helper
   • Age
     • Old students
       • Motivation tends to be more stable
     • Young students
       • Inmiediate long motivation
   • Short term motivation
     • Short period of motivation
   • Long term motivation
     • Long period of motivation