CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE

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The notion of the L2 learner as a social being considers variables such as:
A
Ethnicity, gender and power relations.
B
Language aptitude, personality and intelligence.
C
Learning strategies, attidude and willingness to communicate.
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The learner variables of interest included: first language (L1) listening ability, L1 vocabulary knowledge, L2 vocabulary knowledge, auditory discrimination ability, metacognitive awareness of listening, and working memory capacity.

Detailed explanation-2: -In a case study, women have shown to use more strategies when it comes to language learning. Males, on the other hand, preferred to use more analytical strategies when learning their second language (SL). Females would use fourteen strategies while males used only one when it came to conversational speaking.

Detailed explanation-3: -An interlanguage is an idiolect which has been developed by a learner of a second language (L2) which preserves some features of their first language (L1) and can overgeneralize some L2 writing and speaking rules.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oxford (1990; 2001) has identified and explained six major types of learning strategies in terms of L2 learning: cognitive, metacognitive, memory, compensatory, affective, and social.

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