Differences In
LearnersStudent:
Gabriela Issavout Mejía Suárez.
AGEIn contrast to the well known thought that children are better than adults in the process of learning a new language, there are several reasons to reconsider it.
In fact, Young learners and adults have almost the same amount of advantages than children have.
Older Advantage
Younger Advantage
• Due to a weak feel of identidy they’re more open to receive simple
language input.
• Pracmatic Skills are more
developed so those skills can be
succesfully applied to L2 use.
• Have a certain advantage because they’re process the information without
analysis and develop more native-like
gramatical intuition.
SEXWomen tend to have better progress at pronunciation,
verbal fluency and memorization of complex forms, because their brain is less asymmetrical than men’s for
Speech.
ANDR
OGEN
ESTR
OGEN
(In woman)Higher Levels
of:
Better automatized skills and semantic/ interpretive skills
During the Menstrual Cycle
there’s more level’s of articulatory and
motor ability due to estrogen.
APTITUDE PHONEMIC CODING ABULITY
INDUCTIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING ABILITY GRAMMATICAL SENSITIVITY
ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY CAPACITY
the recognition of morphemes from what the hearer analyze, is the learning ability which consists in storing and retrieving that input.
It is the central processing in where the restructuration of all the first input takes form
by making generalization, recognizing grammatical functions and identifying patterns.
It consists in how the language input is stored, but it varies according to different factors as: if the person is highly sensitive to grammar can have a lower associative memory.
Some learners succeed because of their memory aptitude and linguistic-analytic abilities.However, aptitude is not deterministic at all, but it certainty influence the level of L2 proficiency.
MOTIVATION Integrative Motivation
What motives the person is the desire of get involve with L2 speakers, maybe learn about the culture, also it can be
because of affective factors.
Instrumental Motivation
This kind of motivation is center on the benefits that learning a Second
Language will bring with it, as: business opportunities, be able to read scientific and technical information or passing a
course.
To consider that
Neurological Mechanisms
controls the motivation for
second language.
The Stimulus Appraisal will determine the attitudes and the amount of effort the learner will
put into learning the second language.
CONGNITIVE STYLEEveryone of us has a distinctive way of perceiving and retain information. In fact, in here we will realize how personality factors and learning strategies are closely related.
Auditory
Difficulty to see
parts in a whole
Skills to see
important
details in a
wholeDeductive
Focus on meaning
Field- dependent
Global
Holistic
Cognitive Style
Visual Tactile
Kinesthetic
Movement-oriented
Touch-orientedField-
independent
Particular
Inductive
Focus on form
Analytic
PERSONALITYSelf-condident
Risk - Taking
Adventuresome
Empathetic
Imaginative
Tolerant of ambiguity
Higher
ANXIETY LEVELS
Lower
It interferes with the development of the
learning process and the outcome speech
It’s easier for students to learn
being less afraid of making mistakes.
According to the personality of the student, the learning style will be picked
up to succeed.
Learning Styles
Metacognitive
• An attempt to regulate language learning b planning
and monitoring.
Cognitive• It employs
direct analysis of linguistic material.
Social/affective
• Involve interaction with others.
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Scanning
Mind mapping
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