1. Glottodidactics
Lesson 8

2. Chapters 8 & 9 of the textbook
Glottodidactics
Lesson overview
Chapters 8 & 9 of the textbook

3. Glottodidactics
Keywords: Individual differences, language aptitude, motivation, learning strategies

4. Individual differences in L2 acquisition
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Individual differences in L2 acquisition
There are individual differences in L2 acquisition.
Affective factors such as learners’ personalities
can influence the degree of anxiety they
experience and their readiness to take risks in
learning and using an L2.

5. Individual differences in L2 acquisition
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Individual differences in L2 acquisition
Language aptitude
(Aptitude: Someone's aptitude for a particular kind of work or activity is their ability to learn it quickly and to do it well.)
Some believe that language aptitude is
partly related to general intelligence but also
partially separate.

6. Individual differences in L2 acquisition
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Individual differences in L2 acquisition
John Carroll identified a number of components of
language aptitude.
These are:
Phonemic coding ability: The ability to identify the sounds of a foreign language. This ability is also related to the ability to handle sound symbol relationships.

7. The ability to identify patterns of
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Grammatical sensitivity: The ability to recognize the grammatical functions of words in sentences.
Inductive language learning ability:
The ability to identify patterns of
correspondence and relations between form
and meaning.

8. Individual differences in L2 acquisition
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Individual differences in L2 acquisition
Rote learning ability: The ability to form and remember associations between stimuli. It is believed to improve in vocabulary learning.

9. Individual differences in L2 acquisition
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Individual differences in L2 acquisition
Motivation
It involves the attitudes and affective states
that influence the degree of effort that
learners make to learn an L2.
There are different types of motivation.

10. Glottodidactics Motivation
Instrumental motivation: In some learning contexts, an instrumental motivation seems to be the major force determining success in L2 learning.
Integrative motivation: In other learning contexts, an integrative motivation does not seem to be so important.

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Resultative motivation: Some research suggest that motivation is the cause of L2 success.
However, it is also possible that motivation is the result of learning.
Specifically, learners who experience success in learning can become more or less motivated to learn.

12. Glottodidactics Intrinsic motivation:
These four types of motivation should be
considered as complementary and not
different or oppositional.

13. Glottodidactics Learning strategies
Learning strategies are the particular approaches
or techniques that learners use to try to learn.
They can be behavioural or mental.
There are different kinds of learning strategies.
1.Cognitive strategies: those strategies involved in the analysis, synthesis or transformation of learning materials.

14. Glottodidactics An example of cognitive strategy is recombination.
2. Metacognitive strategies: are those involved in planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning.
An example of metacognitive strategy is selective
attention.
Social or affective strategies concern the ways in
which learners choose to interact with other
speakers.
An example of them is questioning for clarification.