Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #19: Affective Dissonance - Disqualifying the Positive
Excerpt from Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Affective Dissonance: Disqualifying the Positive Disqualifying the positive says a lot about your own self-esteem. It is a case where you are always putting yourself down, and this probably happens in other areas, as well, not just in language learning. When you do not understand how marvelous you are (even if you are not the top student in the classroom—there are so many other ways to be a good language learner and a good person than a high test score), you start looking for what is wrong with you. When you do that, you start seeing your negative qualities (c’mon, we all have them, and if we look hard enough, we will see them, and if we are honest enough, we will admit them), and overlook all your positive qualities, either personal or related to study and performance even when the positive qualities outnumber the negative qualities. When you do that , it becomes difficult to be a good learner. ...