AN ANALYSIS OF SOME psychological FACTORS LEADING TO FAILURE IN DEVELOPING THE LEARNER's ORAL proficiency.

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to highlight the relationship existing between language acquisition/learning and the psychological status of the learner. We will try to investigate how would the learner’s psyche influence positively or negatively the development of the learner’s oral proficiency. This paper is devided into two parts, the first of which includes four chapters. The first three chapters deal respectively with a psychological, psycho-pedagogical and psycholinguistic interpretations of learning. The fourth chapter, however, is primarely related to the identification of some of those psychological factors that hamper the acquisition process. The second part basically includes the questionnaire’s answers analysis due to which we would confirm our hypothesis and discover,explain and illustrate the already stated relationship between students’ psyche and their Acquisition/learning process.