This document discusses attitude and aptitude in second language acquisition. It defines attitude as a manner of thinking, feeling, or behaving that reflects a state of mind, and aptitude as an innate, learned, or acquired ability or natural tendency. It discusses Stephen Krashen's theory that aptitude and attitude provide an explanation for why both language aptitude (as measured by tests) and attitude (affective variables) relate to second language achievement, but are not related to each other. A person can have high or low levels of both aptitude and attitude. Attitudinal factors that help acquisition give learners confidence and enable them to make use of the language they hear. Attitude and aptitude are important factors in second language

1. Topic : Write note on Attitude and Aptitude in
second language acquisition and learning.
Presented by Jayshree Solanki
M.A.(English) Sem-3
Paper No: 12 Roll No:10
Paper Name: ELT
E-mail Id : Solankijayshree122@gmail.com
Submitted :SMT S.B.Gardi M.K. Bhavnagar
University

2. What is attitude ?
 A manner of thinking, felling , or behaving that reflect a
state of mind or disposition.

3. What is Aptitude ?
 Aptitude is an innate, learned or acquired
ability .
 A natural ability to do something
 A natural tendency.

4. Stephen D Krashen
Stephen D Krashen: He university of Southern
California is an expert in the field of
linguistics , specializing in theories of
learning acquisition and development.

5. Aptitude and attitude , providing a
parsimonious explanation for what had
appeared to be a strange finding : both
language Aptitude (as measured by standard
Tests) and Attitude (affective variables)
appear to be related to second language
achievement, but are not related to each
other.
Aptitude
• As measured by standardTests
Attitude
• Affective variables

6. It is possible to have high aptitude and
low attitude, low aptitude and high
attitude, or both high, or both low.
Aptitude : Foreign language aptitude,
which Carroll(1973) defines as the “rate
at which persons at the secondary school,
university and adult level learn to
creterion.”

8. Three Major components of modern Aptitude
tests:
Phonetic
coding ability
Grammatical
sensitivity
Individual
ability
• Is the ability to
store new language
sounds in memory.
• Patterning of
sentences in a
language
• Demonstrate
awareness

9. Attitudinal factors that relate to
second language acquisition will be
those that perform one or both
functions.
1.
They are simply factors that give
confidence acquires to communicate with
speakers of the target language, and
thereby get hold of the necessary input,
or intake, for language acquisition.
Encourage intake

10. 2.
Attitudinal factors relating to
acquisition will be those that make
possible the performer to make the most
of the language heard for acquisition.
Enable the performer

11. Undoubtedly, acquisition is central and
compulsory for real skill in a second
language and learning is a useful
increase available only in certain
situation.
Attitude and Aptitude most important
factor in second language learning