Sr. Flordeliza Deza, SPC - St. Paul University Manila

Individual factors affecting language learning among
adults.
Oxford and Nyikos, 2002 reported that successful
language learners generally use strategies appropriate to
their own stage of learning, personality, age, purpose for
learning the language, and type of language.
Masgoret and Gardner’s (2002) socio-educational model
of second language acquisition recognizes the impact of
attitude and motivation in second language learning,
where one must consider the primacy of individual will
and desire over external conditions in determining
second language learning - which could be applied to the
Chilean experience.