Factors In Learning Language

Abstract

This paper will mainly discuss the main factors in learning a second language. In mostly all the countries a second language is learned whether it is an official or a foreign one. This paper will cover different aspects of language, the motivation for learning a language, the ways people learn these languages and how they deal with the second languages. In order to achieve this, there will be done a qualitative research gathering information and compare different facts and situations in learning foreign languages. We will be able to see different methods of learning languages and the importance of second languages.

I. Introduction

Learning a second language is a very important process and sometimes it can be difficult in learning

A definition of language can be found everywhere in different books explained in various ways from different scientists in the linguistics field. Language is a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols by people of different places and cultures. So in other words based on dictionaries, language covers a group of words and how these words are formed and used by people of the same country or same cultural traditions, it is a system of symbols, sounds, signs that are used as means of communicating though, emotion ( Thesaurus, 2018). Second languages are learned for different needs of people and also sometimes people learn other languages without needing them just for themselves. In this way, people have different motives to learn a language and so they use different ways to achieve their goals on learning something new. Multiple language learning very often refers to the learning of more than two languages in tutored instruction and this term could be used to refer to the learning of a second or third or fourth foreign language in a natural context, and in this way being multilingual means being proficient in more than two languages (Knapp et al, 2009). . English people had to learn different foreign languages like Latin, French, Dutch, Portuguese and Italian etc., whereas English is learned as a second language all

According to Dornyei (1994), motivation is the main determinant of learning a second language, the achievement in learning a second language and thus the role and nature of motivation in learning second languages. In their seminal work, Gardner and Lambert (1972) emphasize that, even though language aptitude account for a considerable proportion of individual variability in language learning achievement, motivational factors can override the aptitude effect, so they show also that many people master a second language learning regardless of their aptitude differences. Motivation to learn a second language is not a simple construct, thus motivation cannot be measured by scales. It definitely cannot be assessed by merely asking individuals to give reasons for why they think learning a language is important to them. Motivation is the key to determine the extent of active, personal involvement in second language learning, thus the unmotivated students are insufficiently involved being so unable to develop skills on learning a second language( Oxford& Shearin, 1994). These two researchers tell us also that a lot of other researchers came to the conclusion that motivation has a direct influence on using strategies from students in learning the second language, about students interacting with the native speakers, the number of inputs received from the language