My own way to excellence in ELL Elba Mndez ELL (English Language Learning) Learners do excel at language learning While

L1 acquisition is relatively free of substantial individual variation, the opposite is true of the learning of an L2. (Drnyei, 2009:180) This report acknowledges individual learner differences, as well as individual learner challenges and achievements. Deconstruction of broad concepts such as aptitude and motivation (Sanz, 2005:105) Each learner has his/her own excellence parameters It is our job to help them find those excellence parameters Challenge your learner (s) within (their) his/her excellence parameters To determine learners (learners) excellence parameters To challenge each learner within his/her own excellence parameters Elo: Anxious learners will tend to remain anxious because they tend to withdraw from situations that might increase their proficiency. (MacIntyre, 2002:67) Beln: All adult L2 learning is fundamentally similar, drawing on conscious information processes under executive control, and that individual differences in the extend of learning can be predicted by measures of IDs in cognitive resources, but importantly, only when those cognitive resources are drawn on by the processing demands of specific learning task conditions which implicate them. (Robinson, 2002:221222)

Mextesol 39th International Convention Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico October 18th - 21st, 2012 Leading the way to excellence in ELT My own way to excellence in ELL Elba Mndez Drnyei (2009) Claims that ID (individual differences) has become increasingly insufficient to understand the complexity of learner-based performance variation Proposes that the learners contribution to the learning process can be best understood within a dynamic systems theory (DST) My own way to excellence in ELL MY STUDENT (NAME) Likes , good at ... A bit ... Prepared talk Wont Spontaneous talk easily. Seems to believe ... Reasons to learn English Finds it hard to ... Common European Framework band (A2- / A2 / A2+ / B1-)

Uniqueness People differ from each other in virtually every one of their attributes and every way of functioning. FLA relatively free of individual variation? Areas of L1 competence such as vocabulary size or pragmatic skills display considerable inter-individual differences. Drnyei (2009) Power Point slides: http://es.scribd.com/doc/110394478 These notes: