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
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