NONLINGUISTIC FACTORS AFFECTING FOREIGN LANGUAGES LEARNING
NONLINGUISTIC FACTORS AFFECTING FOREIGN LANGUAGES LEARNING

Summary/Abstract: The language learning process involves a number of variables/factors which contribute to its success and efficiency. The more the known parameters and issues defining the student (such as the ability to use the target foreign language, opportunities of interaction with native speakers, learning circumstances –authentic materials and trained teachers availability or lack of availability, teaching methods, socio-economical status, age, etc, the more can be done to optimize the learning efficiency. The answers to important questions raised in the field of foreign languages learning pedagogy are meant to provide information referring, for example, to aptitudes fostering the learning process and which can be inborn or acquired, to the intellectual capacity, the native qualities which can be influenced or not, etc. The paper reviews concepts regarding variables/factors which contribute to the efficiency of learning a foreign language: fluid/crystallized intelligence, field independence/dependence, ambiguity tolerance, anxiety and inhibition, motivation, learning strategies

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