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LANGUAGE LEARNING
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Brown p. 154-160
 EXTROVERTED PERSON
VS INTROVERTED
PERSON.
 SELF-ESTEEM.
 INHIBITIONS.
 An extrovert: is outgoing,
interested, social and
seeking excitement.
 An introvert: is more
reserved, less outgoing, less
social.
 This is measured through
questionnaires.
 John Maria Marcus Sarah David

I am the life of the

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party.

I enjoy being the center

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of attention.

I am skilled in handling
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social situations.

I like to be where the

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action is.

I make new friends

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easily.

I am quiet around
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strangers.

I don't like to draw

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attention to myself.

I don't like to party on

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the weekends.

I like to work
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independently.

I often enjoy spending

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time by myself.

50% Extravert
Score 100% Extravert 70% Extravert 50% Introvert 70% Introvert 100% Introvert
(Ambivert)
Some researches found
that in some learning
situations the quite
observant learner may
have greater success.
 It is self-confidence, knowledge
of oneself, and reflections of
self as seen from interactions
with others.
 People derive self-esteem from
the accumulation of experiences
with themselves and others and
the world around them.
 GLOBAL SELF-ESTEEM: general and
stable assessment one makes about his
worth over time and many situations.
 SPECIFIC SELF-ESTEEM: one’s self
judgment in particular situations like
social interaction, work, home, athletic
ability..
 TASK SELF-ESTEEM: relates to tasks
within specific situations (in education
one subject, or skill in a certain sport,…
etc)
 They are defined as built-in
defences to protect the ego.
 The process of defences to
protect the ego start at
adolescence and continue to
adulthood.
 People with high self-esteem
have ego strength and lower
inhibitions and vice versa.
 Language ego: an identity a person
develops in reference to the language
he/she speaks.
 Second language learning requires that
learners take on a new identity with the
new acquired competence. Therefore,
learners need to have a flexible language
ego in order to lower inhibitions that may
block language learning because it is
considered as a threat to the ego.
 Research in this area found mixed and
sometimes conflicting results. Why?
 The major difficulty in studying personality
factors is the identification and measurement
of the factors.
 Personality factors affect only acquisition of
conversational skills not academic skills.
 Some studies focused on measuring the
communicative ability and some measure the
grammatical ability.