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Title
Social Context: A Rather Ignored Trigger in EFL Contexts
Presenter
Reza Gholami
Abstract:
This article tries to investigate the importance of the social context which plays a crucial role in learning a second or foreign language through appraising Spolsky’s model of second language learning. We have frequently discussed the effects of factors such as attitude, motivation, age and personality on learning a second language but the rationale to back them up is social context in which the learner is being brought up and trained.
In countries where English is spoken as a foreign language, this context is naturally absent and consequently the drives for acquiring the second language seem to be missing and the final demanded outcome will never or hardly ever meets the desired proficiency level. The article will fully discuss the reasons for attending to the social contexts as a natural trigger which is almost discarded nowadays.
Keywords:- Spolsky’s model of second language learning,
Bio:
Reza Gholami is currently a Master Candidate in TESL in the Department of Language and Humanities Education, University Putra Malaysia (UPM). He has been teaching as a second/foreign language both in Iran and Malaysia since 2000 and has published two-series books called Mr. Alphabet 1 and 2 in Iran plus several pictorial attachments for Let’s Go Series. His main interest topics include Affective Domains, Psychology, Sociolinguistics, Sociocultural Perspectives, Children Education and Task Based Language Teaching. The title of his Master thesis is “the relationship between introversion/extroversion and Task Variations”
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