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Individual Differences in Second Language Learning

Carlos Patricio Moraga Quiroz

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INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING (Lightbown, P. & Spada, N. (2013)

Multiple intelligences

Instrumental Motivation

1.Intelligence

5. Attitudes & Motivation

Integrative Motivation

Ability to learn quickly.

Social factors can affect motivation, attitudes and language learning success.

2. Aptitude

6. Identity and ethnic group affiliation

“Individual’s natural, habitual and preferred way(s) of absorbing, processing and retaining new information and skills” (Reid, 1995).

3. Learning style

Related to beliefs and opinions learners have about how their instruction should be delivered; usually based on previous experience.

Perceptually-Based Learning Styles

7. Learner beliefs

Cognitive Learning Styles

Willingness to communicate (related to communicative confidence).

4. Personality

8. Age of acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis

Young Learners

Extroversion

Anxiety

Inhibition

Older Learners

Critical Period

by Carlos Moraga Quiroz