SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION COURSE - SOCIAL FACTORS AND SECOND LANGUAGE RESUME

Social Factors and Second Language Acquisition

•  Social factors have a major impact on L2 proficiency but probably do not influence it directly. Rather, their effect is mediated by a number of variables. One set of variables which have been found to be of major importance is learner attitudes. 
• Social factors help to shape learners' attitudes which, in turn, influence learning outcomes. Social factors also influence L2 learning indirectly in another way. They determine the learning opportunities which individual learners experience. 

Social Models of L2 Acquisition 

Learner attitude, manifest attitude toward: target language, target language speaker, target language culture, the social value of learning the L2, particular uses of the target language and themselves as members of their own culture 

In general 

Learner with positive attitude 

•  Will success and have attitude reinforced. 
•  Can be expected to enhance learning in its speaker and its culture 

Learner with negative attitude 

• Learners’ negative attitudes may be strengthened by lack of success.
• Impede learning in enhance its speaker and its culture 

Social Factor and Second Language Acquisition 

There are some variables which influence the attitude which are ...