Socioaffective Principles

This kind of principles are characterized by more marked degree of emotional involvement. They have to do more with how important is the envronment within the students learn, more specifically with the social environment.

Principle 7: Language Ego

As humans beings learn to use a second language, they also develop a  new mode of thinking, feeling, and acting- a second identity. The new "language ego" intertwined with the second language, can easily create within the learner a sense of fragibility, a defensesiveness, and a raising of inhibitions.

Principle 8: Willingness to communicate


Succesful language learners generally believe in themselves and in their capacity to accomplish communicative tasks, and therefore willing rish takers in their attemts to produce and interpret language that is a bit beyond thier absolute certainty. Their willingness to communicate results in the generation of both output (from the learner) and input (to the learner).

Principle 9: The language-culture connection

Whenever you teach a language, you also teach a complex system of cultural customs, values, and ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.