Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #18: Affective Dissonance - Self-Guidance
Excerpt from Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star
Self-Guidance
Self-guidance, self-talk, self-regulation is communication
with ourselves and has been observed even in young children (Vygotsky, 1978).
Self-guidance can be used to shore ourselves up or tear ourselves down. As they
letter, self-guidance is a form of affective dissonance.
In language learning, self-guidance can be positive and promote
our soaring to success. Or, it can be negative and push us into flailing into
failure. Once recognized, the proper kind of self-guidance can replace
debilitating self-guidance.
Defining self-guidance
Self-guidance that is disabling uses such cognitive
distortions as filtering and personalizing—to the point of catastrophizing. Negative
self-guidance is a powerful tool of self-destruction: motivation, self-esteem,
and self-confidence all tumble. (Positive self-talk, on the other hand, brings
up significant increases in motivation, self-esteem, and self-confidence.)
Here are statements made by real-life learners who were
unconsciously ascribe to negative self-guidance.
·
“I
try, but I just can’t do it.”
·
“I’ll
never learn all this vocabulary.”
·
“I
just don’t get grammar.”
·
“I’m
not talented at language learning.”
negative
self-talk = self-fulfilling prophecy
Talking yourself
into success
In contrast to negative
self-talk, positive self-talk can promote success. Say positive things often
enough, and you will believe them.
Here are some of the
kinds of things you can say:
·
I can do it; I’ve done harder things.
·
I can learn this vocabulary if I use the
memorization techniques I was taught.
·
My friend loves grammar; I bet s/he will
help me; if s/he gets it, I can, too.
·
I don’t have to be talented; I just have
to be diligent and use good learning strategies.
Say
“you are a good language learning” repetitively = you believe you are a good
language learner
Think can, not
cannot!
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