LANGUAGE, TEACHING AND LEARNING (A LECTURE NOTE)

Learning and teaching Second language is not easy and is not simple case. It takes many variables of the learners when they must think, feel and act in the second language; when they must leave their first language and come into the new language, and demand teacher to know and understand every variable that is taken from the learners. That is why only few people are able to success in learning the second language well.
Here, I will simply talk about the variables; including some theories had been created by many linguists since a century ago.

What is language?
It is impossible to teach something when we do not know what we will teach. So, when we will teach a language,

SOME PERSONALITY FACTORS IN SLA (LECTURE NOTE)

Learning second language is complicated. There are many variables that may influence the process, the teacher, the media, the method and also the personality factor of learner.

There are some aspects of personality that may affect the second language acquisition (SLA) process, let’s talk it.

           

Self-esteem

You can infer the self-esteem as giving value to your self. Some of learners may give high value to themselves, so that they have strong self confidence and it will affect their SLA process; some of others give low value to themselves, and it makes them lack of self confidence; and some the others give value with indifference for themselves, then they will think that their self is just