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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:30:23 -0700
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- Jeri, I forgot to mention that sociological and psychological factors are as
- important as cognitive strategies. In our classrooms, we have long believed
- that only higher congitive skills were being used... Don't fool yourself!..
- Motivations, affective filter, cultural (mis)-understanding, socio-dynamism
- among students and instructors, degree of risk-taking, personality types,
- gender,... etc. are affecting classrom communication and interaction, too.
- STudents learn how to cope with languages within this type of dynamism...
- If the teaching of cognitive strategies is a good predictor for language
- achievement within a positive atmosophere (low affective filter, risk-taking is
- encouraged, personality profiles are compatible, etc.) it may not be a good
- predictor in a negative atmosphere (high affective filter, overcorrection,
- lack of compatibility between personality types in the classroom...). As a
- matter of fact there is a study by Ely which indicates that motivation and
- situational comfort play a stronger role in the process of language
- development than language aptitude and intelligence. Terrell himself observed
- that "the primary factors which influcence L2 acquisition are affective and not
- cognitive". These studies imply that even if we have the cognitive ability to
- learn a foreign language, if there is a negative affective atmosphere, those
- cognitive abilities are of a lesser efficiency. Have you considered that in
- your study?
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- Lydie Meunier-Cinko
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