1. Principles of learning and teaching foreign language: Seminar 3
FLGR
Natalja Zagura

2. Aptitude for language learning
“prediction of how well, relative to other individuals, an individual can learn a foreign language in a given amount of time and under given conditions” (Carroll and Sapon)
phonetic coding ability
grammatical sensitivity
rote learning ability
inductive learning ability

3. Motivation Integrative vs instrumental Intrinsic vs extrinsic

4. Motivation: determining factors
attitude towards the language, culture, nation
aims
self-esteem
group dynamics
teacher attitudes
(Piret Kärtner)

5. The 10 commandments for creating and maintaining motivation (Dörnyei, Csizer 1999)
Serve as a model
Create a pleasant learning atmosphere
Provide clear directions for completing exercises
Maintain good relations with learners
Support learners’ linguistic self-confedence
Make your lessons interesting
Support learner autonomy
Personalise the learning process
Keep learners aware of the aims
Introduce the target culture

6. Critical period hypothesis
a long-standing debate in linguistics and language acquisition over the extent to which the ability to acquire language is biologically linked to age
the hypothesis claims that there is an ideal 'window' of time to acquire language in a linguistically rich environment, after which this is no longer possible