Persona, adquisición de la L2 y nuevas tecnologías

Abstract

Although the notion that individual internal factors play an essential role in language learning, most of the acquisition/learning research has been done on aspects concerned with techniques and design of environmental changes of the external factors. Yet what belongs to the intra-individual field can strongly alter the final results of a good language teaching programme. To analyse some of the advantages that modern technology can offer to language teaching we use concepts from very different subject fields. This is the case of the psychoanalitic concept of “persona” which, although apparently unrelated, can serve to make explicit that the Vygostkian harmony between intraindividual and inter-individual factors is paramount when it comes to make a good use of the new technological advances for the teaching of languages.