SLA RESEARCH ON SELF-DIRECTION: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES



OAXACA/97 PROJECT                                  INPUT SESSION # 7

THE SELF TASK: Discovering the person and working on self-confidence (adapted from Barrow, 1986)
1. Write down situations that threaten your levels of self-confidence

2. Categories of the self

Our self can be described under four different categories

a) physical self b) social adequacy c) intellectual competency d) emotional functioning

Classify your situations in 1 according to the categories of the self.

4. Write some the aspects of your experience on learning a language which are 1) in your perceived self but not
in your ideal self, 2) in both and 3) in your ideal self but not in your perceived self.

5. What can you do to improve the congruence of your perceived self with your ideal self?

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