COGNITIVE INFLUENCES ON LANGUAGE LEARNING

COGNITIVE INFLUENCES ON LANGUAGE LEARNING

1. MENTAL CONDITIONS

   • INTELLIGENCE
     • HABILITY TO ACQUIRE AND APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
       • MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
         • LOGIC -MATHEMATIC
           • LINGUISTIC
             • SPATIAL
               • MUSICAL
                 • BODILY KINESTHETIC
                   • INTERPERSONAL
                     • INTRAPERSONAL
                       • NATURALISTIC
                         • SPIRITUAL
                           • ABILITY TO RELATE TO THINGS OF A SPIRITUAL NATURE
                         • PATTERNS IN NATURE
                       • SELF- KNOWLEDGE
                     • ABILITY TO RELATE TO OTHERS
                   • FINE MOTOR MOVEMENTS
   • STRATEGIES
     • PROCESSES

2. MOTHER TONGUE

   • language that a person has grown up speaking from early childhood.

3. FOREIGN LANGUAGE

   • language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to

4. LANGUAGE APTITUDE

   • NATURAL ABILITY TO LEARN LANGUAGUES
     • FOUR COMPONENTS
       • PHONEMIC OR PHONETIC CODING ABILITY
         • ABILITY TO DISCRIMINATE AND RECALL NEW SOUNDS
       • INDUCTIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING ABILYTY
         • ABILITY TO IDENTIFY PATTERNS OF RELATIONSHIP AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GRAMMATICAL FORMS AND MEANINGS
       • GRAMMATICAL SENSITIVITY
         • ABILITY TO RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS IN A SENTENCES
       • ROTE LEARNING ABILITY
         • ABILITY TO MAKE ASSOCIATONS BETWEEN NATIVE LANGUAGE WORDS AND TARGET LANGUAGE WORDS= MEMORY