Intelligence
and Foreign
Learning
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states that his purpose is "to explore
how stimulus appraisals
mental
activity that
enhances or inhibits learning", and he notes that in the research two important issues are "(a)
that emotional reactions influence the attention
and effort devoted to learning, and (b) that
patterns of appraisal may
what has
considered motivation in SLA" (Schumann,
1997: 8).
The stimulus appraisal concept connects with and
support for MIT at various
points. Learning activities which are varied so that at least
of them relate to the learner's
strengths will be more likely to be appraised positively
they will be more comfortable
and thus more pleasant, they will be within the learner's coping ability, and they will certainly
be more compatible with his or her self-concept. For example, learners with high visual-spatial
intelligence who do an activity requiring them to draw pictures of four things that are important
to them and then in the foreign language ask each other about their drawings would probably
appraise the activity in a favourable way and therefore their motivation towards the activity and
the context in which it is carried out would be increased.
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