Group 13 nirwati- khusno abdul aziz- AFFECTIVE FACTORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

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                                    KHUSNO ABDUL. A    (2130730007 )

AFFECTIVE FACTORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Self- esteem 

            Self- esteem is probably the most pervasive aspect of any human behavior.

ü  Global self- esteem

ü  Situational or specific self- esteem

ü  Task self- esteem 

Attribution theory and self- efficacy

ü  Atribution theory focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and fall ures.

ü  Self- efficacy is a learner feels he or she is capable of carriying out a given task in other words,a sinse of self- efficacy, an appropriate degree of effort may be devoted to achieving success.

Willingnees to communicate

            Willingnees to communicate as the tackle a second language. 

Inhibition

            Yet another variable that is closely related to and in some cases subsumed under the notion of self- efficacy is the concept of inhibition.   

Risk Taking

            Rist taking is a n important characteristic of succesful learning of a second language. Beebe 1983 p.41 cited the study which claimed that person whit a high motivation to achieve are moderate, not high, rissk takers. Beebe , p. 40 discribed some of the negative ramifications that foster fear of risk taking both in the classroom and in natural settings. 

Anxiety

            State anxiety as experiencedin relation to some particular even or act. Language anxiety, as uit has come to be known, focuses more specificaalyly on the situational nature of state anxiety.

·         Three components of foreign language anxiety.

1.      Comunication apprehension

2.      Fear of negative social evaluation

3.      Test anxiety

·         Understanding  of anxienty is divided into two terms

1.      Debilitative

2.      Facilitative anxienty 

Empathy

            Empathy is the process of putting yourself into someone else’s shoes, of reaching beyond the self to understand what another person is feeling. 

Extroversion

            The extroversion is the extent to which a person has a deep seated need to receive ego enhancement, self esteem, and a sense of wholeness from other people opposed to receiving that affirmation whithin oneself.