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Personality Factors Personality Factors&
Teaching Englishas a Foreign
Language
b y IULIANA DRUTAC
2010
EG32
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Human Beings
areEmotional Creatures
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Emotions
What you do
What you learn
What you think
affect
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1. Intrinsic ² Personality Factors (ch.6)
2. Extrinsic ² Sociocultural Variables (ch.7)
A ffective Domain of 2L Acquisition
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Personalit y F actors
I. The Affective DomainII. Myers-Briggs (Character Types)
III. Motivation
IV. The Neurobiology of Affect
V. Measuring Affective Factors
Outline
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I. Affective DomainBloom and Development of the Affective Domain:
Development begins with
Receiving.
Responding.
Valuing. Placing worth.
Organization. System of beliefs & Hierarchy.
Act in accordance with the value system.
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1. Self-Esteem
2. Inhibition
3. Risk-Taking
4. Anxiety
5. Empathy
6. Extroversion
Specific Personality Factors (6)
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Personal Judgment of worthiness
that is expressed in the attitudes that
individuals hold toward themselves
Derived from experiences
with themselves and others, and
assessments of the external world
1. S elf - EsteemPERSONALITY FACTORS
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3 Levels of Self-Esteem
1. General or Global ² (overall self-appraisal over time)
2. Situational / Specific ² (self-appraisal in particular
life situations)
3. Task ² (particular tasks within specific situations)
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Teachers can have a positive and
influential effect on
1. Linguistic performance
2. The Emotional well-being of the students
Application in the classroomSelf Self--EsteemEsteem
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All human beings build sets of defenses
to protect the ego (concept of own self )
Newborns ² no concept of own self
Childhood ² begin to create it
Adolescence ² changes:Physical, Emotional, andCognitive > defensive inhibitions to protect fragileEGO
Adulthood ² more building defenses
2. InhibitionPERSONALITY FACTORS
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2L acquisition involves a New Identity
An adaptive language ego enables learners
to lower the inhibitions that may impede
success.
Inhibition and Language Ego(Guiora)
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Inhibition
The removal of defenses promote language
learning
Application in the classroom
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Good language learners haveThe ability to make intelligent guesses.
Impulsivity ²> positive effects in 2L.
Take the risk of being wrong (bad grade, failin one exam, punishment, embarrassment)
3. Risk-Taking PERSONALITY FACTORS
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High Risk-Takers: may be need to be ´tamedµ
Silent Students: Encourage guessing
V alue the student as persons for those risks thatthey take.
Application in the classroom
Risk-Taking
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4. Anxiety
Associated with feelings of frustration, self-
doubt, apprehension, worry, or uneasiness.
Levels of Anxiety:
1. Trait * - permanent predisposition
2. State * - momentary or situational3. Debilitative * - Harmful
4. Facilitative * - Helpful >POSITIVE FACTOR
PERSONALITY FACTORS
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Anxiety Differentiate if the anxiety is Trait
(permanent) or State (momentary)
Promote a Facilitative Anxiety
(positive effects)
Application in the classroom
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5. Em pathy
Language > keep bonds of society
Social transaction (to reach out beyond
the self to others > tool: language)
Transactional variables ² imitation,
modeling, empathy, etc
2L: important variables: Empathy andExtroversion
PERSONALITY FACTORS
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´putting yourself into someone else·s shoesµ
Communication requires a sophisticated
degree of empathy.
To be able to understand the other person·s
affective and cognitive states
Em pathy
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Empathy
The need to define empathy cross-culturally
How different cultures express empathy.
Application in the classroom
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6 . Extroversion
Stereotype: (gregarious, ´life of the partyµ)
Extroverts. ´Need to receive ego enhancement,
self-esteem, and a sense of wholeness from
other people.µ
They NEED OTHER people to feel ´goodµ
PERSONALITY FACTORS
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Contrary to our stereotypes
Introverts can have an inner strength of
character
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Extroversion Stereotypes have influenced teachers· perception
of students.
Prejudging on the basis of perceived extroversion. Visibility in the classroom is not due to
extroversion factor.
Cultural factor: improper to speak out
Extroversion may be a symptom of defensivebarriers
There is no correlation of * and 2L success
Application in the classroom
Motivation
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1. Self-Esteem
2. Inhibition
3. Risk-Taking
4. Anxiety
5. Empathy
6. Extroversion
C onclusions > Personality Factors
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II . Personality
Ty pe Myers-Briggs
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II.Personality ´Typeµ and Success
Character Types
Carl Jung ² ´people are different in
fundamental waysµ
An individual has preferences for
´functioningµ in ways that are ´typicalµ of
that particular individual.
Factor: INDIVIDUAL VARIATION
Myers-Briggs
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Four two-dimensional Styles
1. (I/E) Introversion vs. Extroversion (sense ofwholeness and Self-Esteem)
2. ( S/I ) Sensing vs. Intuition (perception ofthe world)
3. ( T /F ) Thinking vs. Feeling (conclusions &
storing of reality in memory)4. (J/P) Judging vs. Perceiving (attitude
toward the ´outer worldµ)
Myers-Briggs Test
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Four two-dimensional categories
16 personality profiles or combinations
Example: ENJF or ´ISTPµ
Implications :
ES will excel in group work
IS will prefer individual works
Personality Profiles
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Myers-Briggs
Differences in strategy use for 2L,
depending into strategies associated with
native Learning Style
Successful learner know their preferences,
strengths and weakness, and effectively
utilize strengths and compensate forweaknesses regardless of their ´naturalµ
preferences
Application in the classroom
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III. M
otivation
Success >>> Motivation
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1. Behaviorist ² * is the anticipation of rewarded (our acts > external forces)
1. Cognitive ² * is due to Individual decisions
1. Constructivist ² * emphasis on Social Context and individual personal choices
3 Pers pectivesMotivation
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a. Instrumental: attaining instrument goals
(reading technical material, translation, furthering a career)
b. Integrative: integrate themselves into the
culture of 2L
Instrumental and Integrative
Orientations
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Intrinsic * - No apparent reward, except
the activity itself
> competence and self-determination
Extrinsic * - reward from outside and
beyond the self.
Intrinsic and Extrinsic
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Motivation
2L requires some of all there levels of
motivation
Our pedagogical tools can harness the
power of intrinsically motivated learners
who are striving for Excellence, autonomy,and self-actualization
Application in the classroom
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IV . The
Neurobiology of A ffect
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IV. The Neurobiology of Affect
PET, MRI
Affectivity and mental/emotional processing
> 2L
Amygdala ² ability to make an appraisal of
a stimulus
To decide if your perception is pleasant and
relevant or unpleasant and painful
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Neurobiology
Schumann: Positive appraisals of the
language learning situation enhance 2L andnegative appraisals inhibit 2L
Application in the classroom
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Paper-and-pencil tests:
asking for self-rating
V . Measuring A ffective
Factors
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1. Validity
a) widely validated previouslyb) do not rely on only one instrument
2. Self-flattery syndromeperceptions are biased > desirable personality type
3. Culturally ethnocentricdifficult to interpret cross-culturally
S uch tests present 3 problems