FACTORS AFFECTING
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
INTELLIGENCE
8 types of Multiple intelligence
proposed by Gardner
LEARNING
APTITUDE
Each student has individual
personality and capability
Cognitive ability of a person to
convert information from any
second language learning
sessions to their own level of
comprehension.
LEARNING STYLES
The most suitable approach for
second language learners are
verbal, social and aural learning
preferences
PERSONALITY
Outgoing and more spontaneous
person can acquire the second
language better than someone
that is shy and overthinking.
LANGUAGE
ANXIETY
When a person feels tension,
apprehension, nervous and worry
in class when they are having
difficulties regarding the subject
content
ATTITUDES &
MOTIVATION
Parents roles is crucial towards
their child learning in a second
language acquisition process.
LEARNER BELIEF
Healthy sense of selfconfidence help a person to
accomplish good results by
giving them the feeling of trust
on their abilities, potentials and
intuition
AGE & SLA
Younger learner is quicker as
they maximum potential are
quite higher than adult
SOCIAL IDENTITY
However adults tend to
grasps some other aspects
easily than younger learners.
In Norton’s theory of social
identity, he states that social
identity is the way people view
their status in reality in relation to
aspects of time, space and what
others think of their future
existence.
CHALLENGE IN
SLA
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Traditional teaching
method.
Introvert personality
Lack of motivation
ETHNIC IDENTITY
SOLUTION TO SLA
CHALLENGE
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Refer info from other
media
Develop positive thinking
Time management
Ethnic identity is the
individual point of view, habit
or personality on which
categorized him to a specific
ethnic society