A Critical Look at the Status of Affect in Second Language Acquisition Research: Lessons from Vygotsky’s Legacy

A Critical Look at the Status of Affect in Second Language Acquisition Research: Lessons from Vygotsky’s Legacy

The phenomenon of affect and its relationship to second language learning is well-known and has been experienced by most language learners. One of the main debates that has recently appeared in the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) literature is related to the status of affective factors in this dom...

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Main Authors: Parviz Maftoon, Somayyeh Sabah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EduSoft publishing 2012-05-01
Series:Brain: Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience
Subjects:
affective factors, affective filter hypothesis, Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, perezhivanie, collective ZPD, dialogic thinking framework, and second language acquisition
Online Access:http://brain.edusoft.ro/index.php/brain/article/view/361

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