Chapter 6
What comes to your mind when
you hear the following?
Emotions
Mind
Your
Name
Challenge
Fear
love
There are 2 facets of affective
domain of SLA
1. The intrinsic side:
(personality)
2. Extrinsic side:
(sociocultural)
The affective domain:
Affect:
refers to emotions or feelings
The affective domain:
the emotional side of human behaviour
that could be attached to the cognitive
side
Levels of affectivity:
1. Receiving
2. Responding
3. Valuing
4. Organization of values
5. Value system
The relation between language and
emotion
Pike (1967) states that
Language is behaviour
A human activity where we cannot
divide from nonverbal activity
Affective factors in SLA
global
Situational
Specific
selfesteem
Task
What is self-esteem?
Self-esteem = self confidence
= knowledge of yourself =
self-efficacy
Attribution theory and self-efficacy
Ability
Difficulty
of task
Attribution
Luck
Effort
Self-efficacy
When the learner feels he or she
could carry out a given task
Willingness to communicate
The intention to initiate
communication given a
choice
Inhibition
Means prevention or
suppression
High self-esteem= lower
defences
Low self-esteem= high
resistance
Language ego
The very personal nature of
second language acquisition
Risk taking
Willingness to try out hunches
about the language and take the
risk of being wrong
Anxiety
The subjective feeling of tension
, apprehension, nervousness
and worry
Trait
Permanent
Anxiety
State
Language
Related to act
Situational state
Components of anxiety
Communication
Social
evaluation
Test
 Debilitative anxiety (harmful)
 Facilitative anxiety (helpful)
Linguistic deficit coding hypothesis