INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING
"Good language learners"
Characteristics
Motivation, intellectual abilities and learning preferences
Intelligence
Multiple intelligences
Learning style
Field independent
Tend to separate details from the general background
Field dependent
Tend to see things more holistically
Motivation and attitudes
Instrumental motivation
Integrative motivation
Learner beliefs
Critical Period
Relationship between age and the acquisition of features of a second language
Accent
Research on learner characteristics
Correlation
Aptitude
Personality
Identity and ethnic group affiliation
Social factors can affect motivation, attitudes and language learning success.
Age of acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis
Intuitions of grammaticality
The age at which people began to exposure to English
At what age should second language instructions begin?