Language Learning Beliefs
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Beliefs, Modelling and Motivation… Do you know what yours are? Here are some brief insights into thought-provoking exercises and techniques to successfully overcome barriers, facilitate fluency and find your goals and motivations to really gain momentum in language learning
Beliefs, Modelling and Motivation… Do you know what yours are?
OK now we are progressing to some of the nitty-gritty of achieving fluency — here are some brief insights into thought-provoking exercises and techniques to successfully overcome barriers, facilitate fluency and find your goals and motivations to really gain momentum in language learning.
Beliefs, modelling and motivation, if correctly aligned, can be the ultimate breakthrough to success….
Let’s start with a short exercise! Get pen and paper and quickly run through this belief appraisal on 2nd language acquisition. Put yourself in the position of you as a student learning a new language; forget being a teacher for the moment.
Write here your presuppositions concerning the acquisition of foreign languages. Don’t take too much time to think about it. Just jot down on paper what comes into your head first and what appears to be the most important or ‘true’ for you.
It may be general remarks, observations, (ex: ‘Chinese is difficult’; ‘grammar is important’) or recommendations (ex: ‘one has to work a lot on grammar’; ‘you must have a good teacher to learn a foreign language’).
A limiting belief will probably show in a clause like ‘one has to concentrate on vocabulary’. When we have two clauses, chances are that we will have two separated beliefs: ‘one has to concentrate on vocabulary because one cannot communicate without enough of it’.
As soon as you are done, class what you got by order of importance, meaning specifically, what in your map of the world seems to be the most relevant things to communicate about foreign language acquisition. You can class 7 plus or minus 2 of these elements (max. 9 — min. 5).
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