Affective Factors

Why do we discuss affective factors?

• identity and language identity

  • Let forgein language learnigns adopt a new name

• Bloom’s Affective Taxonomy

• Language is behavior

• Enrich our understanding

Affective Domain

• Emotional side of behavior

• Variety of personality factors, feelings, beliefs about ourselves

• Self-Identity & values

Affective Factors

1. Self-Efficacy

2. Willingness to communicate

3. Inhibituion

4. Risk-taking

5. Anxiety

6. Empathy

7. Extroversion and Introversion

Motivation

Behavioral perspective

• motivation is the anticipation of a reward

Cognitive perspective

• More emphasis on the individual’s decisions

Constructivist perspective

Intelligences

• Linguistic

• logical

• spatial

• musical

• kinesthetic

• Interpersonal

• Intrapersonal

• Naturalist intelligence

Personality