FACTORS INFLUENCING SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Motivation
The most important factor
It's determinant in the person's decisions
Leads to greater success
Let establish over goals
Integrative motivation
To get a better job
Speak with another person
To pass a test
Achive objetives
Interest in other cultures
Learning according to the wishes
Attitude
Gets learning another language
Have positive attitudes
Community and people who speak
anther language.
Learning and language concerned
Languages and language learning in general.
Age
Children and adults are good learners of another language but with some differences
There are a relaction between students learning and age.
Children are more motivated
Language depends on the situation of the individual learner
Childrens acquire more easily than that at any other time.
Biological development
Children achieve a more native-like accen
They are also better in the acquisition of grammar
After puberty could be more difficult
They are good in acquisiton of grammar
Adults learn better rules and systems
Intelligence
Intelligence is defined and measured in terms.
Linguistic and logical-mathematical abilities
Intellectual abilities
Predict the rate and success of SLA
Multiple intelligences
Linguistic
Logical-mathematical
Spatial
Musical
Bodily-kinesthetic
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Natural
Every person possesses the eight intelligences
Each one evolve in-dependently at different times and to different degrees.
Personallity
Cognitive abilities
Affective states
Create the accurate atmosphere
for learning.
The most importants personallity factors are
Introversion/extroversion
Selfe steem
Evaluation which the individual makes and customarily maintains with regard to himself.
Approval or disapproval attitude
Individual believes himself to be capable.
Classroom interactions have a great influence.
Inhibition
It is necessary to make mistakes if a person wants to learn another language.
Risk-taking
Anxiety
learning a foreign language.
It affects some abilities like communication apprehension. learning, etc.
Empathy
Talkativeness
Responsiveness
Comunicative competence
Learning styles
It is the way in which a learner tries to learn something
Different learners
Audio learners
Kinesthetic learners
Visual learners
Methods to the students’ learning styles.
Aptitud
Is natural ability
to learn a language
Ability to identify sound pattern in a new language
Ability to recognize the different of grammatical functions in other language.
Factors in a languge aptitud
Phonemic coding ability.
Grammatical sensitivity.
Inductive language learning ability
Rote learning ability.
It is necessary to improve and develop new aptitude tests
Aptitude can learn more quickly and easily than that of low language aptitude.