DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1) AFFECTIVE FACTORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUSITION

• Imagine yourself as a teacher and one of the students in your class is lack of self-esteem. You know that this feeling will obstruct his success and causes him to get low grades. How would you help this student?
• What are some of the social and individual consequences of the types of attributions we make?
• As a teacher how would you increase your students' wilingness of communication?
• How would you balance between students who are open to risk-taking and those who are inhibited?
• Do you think a well-balanced anxiety could be a trigger in classroom environment?
• Which techniques would yo use to provide emphaty between students in classroom?

2) MOTIVATION

• Are you generally intrinsicly or extrinsicly motivated?
• What do you think about instrumental and integrative orientations?
• Do you think that most students have instrumental orientations today's education system?

3) THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF AFFECT

• Do you think that some positive suggestions such as "I like learning English" may help the anxiety and fear reduce?
• Considering the time effort and deductive teaching process, which types of learning would you use as a teacher? Deep learning or Surface Learning?
• According to 16 personal types, which type of student has much more tendency to foreign language education?