🧠 Positive factors influencing the learning of a second language 🧠

1. Teaching methods

1.1. Total Physical Response (TPR)

1.1.1. Asher considers its unique characteristic of physical actions in tesponse to teacher's commands (1, p. 207)

1.2. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

1.2.1. Presumes that students want to communicate, starting with simultaneous reading and hearing dialogue based on real-life everyday (1, p. 210)

1.3. Teachers, learners, tasks, and context doesn't exist in isolation. They interact as part of a dynamic, ongoing process (2. p. 43)

1.4. Clarity of presentation, teacher enthusiasm, variety of activities, stimulation, guiding student's answers (2, p. 47)

2. External factors

2.1. Significant others: parents, teachers and peers. (2, p. 139)

2.2. Learning environment: confort, resources and time of day, week, year. (2, p. 139)

3. 👍 Social interaction 👍

3.1. Encourage active use and helps internalize them more effectively

4. Motivation

4.1. The amount of exposure, attention, and effort may be affected by it. (1, p. 186)

4.2. A sense of competence, feeling that they are capable of coping successfully and particular task. (2, p. 69)

4.3. Goal-setting and plan ways to achieve them. (2, p. 69)

4.4. Sense of belonging to a community and culture (2, p. 69)

5. References

5.1. 1. Psycholinguistics - Language, Mind, and World.

5.2. 2. Psychology for Language Teachers - A Social Constructivist Approach.

5.3. UNIT 2-ACTIVITY 1 (OCT-28/2024)