Emotional Intelligence in Foreign Language Acquisition
Roč.5,č.1(2015)
This article aims to touch upon areas of emotional intelligence connected to foreign language acquisition. It is going to frame out the areas that are crucial for everyday human interactions and that can be used fruitfully for foreign language learning. As people need to communicate and their uttermost need is to connect with other people, it becomes necessary to be able to navigate one´s own behaviour through the lands of others. Emotional intelligence helps people to be guided through the web of human relations and to understand their own feelings as well as those of others. Undemanding as it might sound, this is in reality very laborious, even in a native language, let alone in a foreign one. However, mastering emotional intelligence in a foreign language can serve as a facilitating element as well as a progress marker, as it represents the threshold dividing a mediocre user from a fluent and natural one. It opens the gate to a much higher level of knowledge; to a much higher level of learning, living and being. After first giving an overview of the topic, this paper, therefore, discusses the incorporation of certain elements of emotional intelligence into a language classroom to boost learning and results.
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