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Learner Characteristics

Learner characteristics can be described as various steps of leaners’ psychological, behavioral nature, and attitudes toward everything related to learning. There are three learner characteristics, they are motivation, anxiety, and belief about language learning.

1.      Motivation

Motivation includes two reasons that learner have for learning a language intensely. For examples, the first is learners study the language only for fill the their job requirement. Then, the second is different reason for language learning, learners study the language to use it for career puposes. Usually people who study the language for career purposes have a stronger motivation than people who study the language only for fill the job requirement.

2.      Anxiety

Anxiety is like an uncomfortable feeling to learn something new. It means that they always want to know about something new. For example, language learners feel uncomfortable when they speak or listen the new language, so they have a desire to learn the language intensely.

3.      Learner Beliefs

Learner beliefs about language learning are important to have because they influence how learners approach language learning and language learning strategies that they choose to use.

Linguistic Factors

Linguistic factors in learning are normally subsumed within the field of educational linguistic. This field encompasses research into multilingualism; language situations and policies including medium of instructions; how linguistic practices and factors can guide effective pedagogy; and classroom discourse analysis for effective teaching and learning. Linguistic factors in learning also include more current approaches in relation to linguistics variables and learning (dis)abilities.

Learning process

            It’s part of learning proscess and important part of social learning process. Learning process is the actions and behaviour a person use to learn(OXFORD). In our opinion learning process is how the way the teacher teach the student by some methods to make the student understand. As we know that learning often takes in formal situation and  place best when student have opportunities to express. To know a person sucess in language learning we can look at the understanding of the student by some exercises. There are some kinds of  strategies are available for learner such as small group discussion, presentation,  game etc. However  the optimal strategies that are appropiate to the material, to the task, and to their goals need and stage of learning.