Individuals Differences

Effects In Second

Language Learning

The differences that one can explore are:

1.Gender 2.Aptitude3.Motivation4.Learning style

Gender Gender have shown that

females tend to show greater integrative motivation and more positive attitudes to second language, and use a wider range of learning strategies, particularly social strategies .

Aptitude- Skehan (British linguist)

Believes That aptitude has consistently been linked with second language success.

- Carroll (American psychologist) who created the Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT)which was designed to predict success foreign language learning provides us with the 4 types of abilities that constitute aptitude

MotivationINTEGRATIVE INSTRUMENTAL

Who love to learn the language not because he has to .

Who learn the language for some reasons .

Learning Style

The cognitive learning style , these styles are of two types :

1. Field Independent .2. Field Dependent style .