Affective domain - Elizabeth

Affective Domain

Personality factors

Definition

Levels of affectivty

“The affective domain is the emotional side of human behavior, and it may be juxtaposed to the cognitive side (...), involves a variety of personality factors, feelings both about ourselves and about others with whom we come into contact” (Brown, 2000, p. 140).

1. Receiving
2. Responding
3. Valuing
4. Organization
5. Value system

Influence in SLA

Self- esteem

Global view

High self-esteem, self-efficacy and motivation allow success in SLA, promote willingness to communicate and risk-taking. Students will be able to accept mistakes, take risks and improve their performance. Thus, defenses and levels of inhibition will be lower, impeding fossilization.

Self- efficacy

Willingness to communicate

Inhibition

Risk taking

Anxiety

Empathy

Extroversion

Motivation

Personality traits

Willingness to try new things as well as engage in imaginative and intellectual activities. People tend to be more adventurous and creative.

How people tend to treat relationships with others. High agreeableness persons tend to be more cooperative while those low in this personality trait tend to be more competitive.

Tendency and intensity to which someone seeks interaction with their environment, particularly socially. It encompasses the comfort and assertiveness levels of people in social situations.

Describes the overall emotional stability of an individual through how they perceive the world. Includes one’s propensity to experience negative emotions.

Refers to a person’s ability to regulate impulse control to engage in goal-directed behavior. Highly conscientious people tend to be organized and mindful of details.

What is self-esteem?

It is the personal judgment of worthiness that is expressed in the attitudes that individuals hold toward themselves. It is a subjective experience which the individual conveys to others by verbal reports and other overt expressive behavior.

Levels of self-esteem

• General or global self-esteem
• Situational or specific self-esteem
• Task self-esteem

What is self-efficacy?

Sel-efficacy is related to the attributon theory, it is how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.

Explanations for success and/or failure

• Own bility
• Effort performed
• Perceived difficulty of a task
• Luck

Definition

Levels of anxiety

Can be define as the subjective feeling of tension, apprehension, nervousness, and worry associated with an arousal of the autonomic nervous system.

• Deepest/global level: permanent
• Momentary/situational level: in relation to some particular event or act.

Components of foreign language anxiety

• Communication apprehension
• Fear of negative social evaluation
• Test anxiety

Definition

Characteristics

An internal state that propels individuals to engage in goal-directed behavior. It is a desire to act in service of a goal, and it fuels competition and sparks social connection

• Can be global,situational,or task-oriented.
• Is examined in terms of the intrinsic and extrinsic motives.
• Estudied in terms of orientation: instrumental and integrative orientations.

Theories of motivation

• Communication apprehension
• Fear of negative social evaluation
• Test anxiety

Bibliography

• Brown, D. H. (2000). Principles of language learning & teaching. (4th ed.). New York: Longman.
• Lym, A. (2023). Big Five Personality Traits: The 5-Factor Model of Personality. SimplyPsychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/big-five-personality.html
• Cherry, K. (2023). What Are the Big 5 Personality Traits?. verywellminds. https://www.verywellmind.com/the-big-five-personality-dimensions-2795422