An Investigation on the Influence of Temperament on L2 Achievement of Adult Turkish Learners of English
| Autor: | OJO, Damilola Joycelyn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Volume: 3, Issue: 5 89-106 International Journal of Media Culture and Literature |
| ISSN: | 2149-5475 2667-8403 |
| Popis: | Temperamenthas attracted a lot of attention over the years and may be linked to thesuccess or failure in the performance of an L2. The interest brings up themotivation to investigate Learners’ variation, while some are better and someare poor in L2 performance (Ellis, 2008). There have been claims thattemperament of a learner determines the failure or success in language learningand use (Pennebaker & King, 1999).Thisstudy investigate the influence of temperament of Turkish EFL Learners in L2achievement, temperament is a major aspect of humans and there have beendifferent argument and to where it originate from either from genes or theenvironment. Behavioral science is of the view that genes affect temperamentthan the environment. ‘Heredity has a greater influence on one’s personalityand behaviour than either one’s upbringing or the most crushing social pressure’(Lang, 1987, p.58-66). |
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