Various Factors that Influence Learning

1. Age – An important factor that makes a second language totally different from the first
language. Children of the age of 6 who have already acquired full proficiency in their first
language are most capable of learning a second language. Adults usually find it difficult to
learn a new language when they become too accustomed to their first/native language.
2. Personality - A child’s personality does not usually make that much of difference in the
acquisition of the first language. But it makes a huge difference in the learning process of
the second language. In the second language learning process, the learners with an
introvert personality usually make slow progress than the learners with an extrovert
personality.
3. Culture - A child’s personality does not usually make that much of difference in the
acquisition of the first language. But it makes a huge difference in the learning process of
the second language. In the second language learning process, the learners with an
introvert personality usually make slow progress than the learners with an extrovert
personality.
4. Motivation- A child’s personality does not usually make that much of difference in the
acquisition of the first language. But it makes a huge difference in the learning process of
the second language. In the second language learning process, the learners with an
introvert personality usually make slow progress than the learners with an extrovert
personality.5
5. Mother Tongue - The first language is the mother tongue of a person. The second
language learning depends a lot on the structures of the first language. If the structure of
the first language is similar to the second language, it will be easy and fast for the learners
to internalize it.