1. Personality Factors in Language
Learning
Jennifer Castillo
Natalia Molina

2. Affective Domain
• Affective
Domain refers to
the emotional
side of human
behavior

3. Five Levels of Affectivity
• Receiving
• Responding
• Valuing
• Organization
• Value System

4. Self-Esteem
• “…it expresses an attitute of approval or
disapproval, and indicates th extent to which
an individual believes himself to be capable,
significant, successful and worthy...”

5. Categorized into three levels
• First Level
• General or global s.e relatively stable in mature
adults and resistent to change
• Second Level
• Situational or specific s.e refers to s.e in a certain
situation
• Third Level
• Task s.e refers to s.e while performing a specific
task in a situation

6. The chicken or egg question
• Does high self- esteem cause language success
or does language success cause high self-
esteem?

7. Inhibitions

8. Risk Taking
Self-esteem and risk taking go…

9. Anxiety
• Synonyms include: worry, tension, self-doubt
• Debilitative anxiety: “text anxiety”
undermines your ability to perform a task
• Facilitative anxiety: provides the extra push to
get the job done

10. Social transactions
• Means to overpass yourself as well
as to get to others
Empathy
Imitation
Agression
Extroversion

11. Empathy

12. 2 ways of achieving it
• Awarness and knowledge of one’s feelings
• Identification with another person
* You need to learn and love yourself first.

13. Extroversion
• Can be characterized as
Outgoing
Sociable
Needed for attention
adaptable

14. Introversion
Can be described as:
Quite
Reserved
isolated

15. Myers-Briggs Character types
Extroversion (E) Introversion (I)
Sociability Concentration
Interaction limited relationships
Multiplicity of Intensive
Relationships Internal events
External events

16. Sensing (S) Intuition (N)
Expirience Hunches
Down to earth Future
Fact fantasy
Sensible Imagination

17. Thinking (T) Feeling (F)
Principles Personal
Objective Humane
Critique Good or Bad
Analysis Sympathy

18. Judging (J) Perceiving (P)
Decided Let life happen
Decision-making Adapt as you go
Planned Something will turn up
Wrap it up There’s plenty of time

19. Desire to be committed in a
particular aspect of life

20. Six needs to achieve motivation
1. Need of exploration
2. Need of manipulation
3. Need for activity
4. Need for stimulation
5. Need for knowledge
6. Need for ego enhancement

21. Instrumental and integrative
motivation
• They are 2 basic types of motivation
Instrumental- refers to acquiring a language
Integrative- Get involved with culture of the
language