Manuscript Title:

A STUDY OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL IN THE VELLORE DISTRICT

Author:

M. VINITHA, Dr. V. MANIMOZHI

DOI Number:

DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/4ZK5S

Published : 2022-05-23

About the author(s)

1. M. VINITHA - Research Scholar, Department of English, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research.
2. Dr. V. MANIMOZHI - Research Supervisor, Department of English, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research.

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Abstract

This is a study of social-psychological perceptions and practices affecting English language learning in a bi/multilingual socio-cultural context. The area of study is set in the field of social psychology in Language learning. The attitudinal and motivational perceptions toward language learning indicate the social and psychological nature of language learning. These perceptions are formed among individuals through an interaction between the individual personality and social-context factors, thus, the label 'socialpsychological' is used to refer to these factors. A social psychological approach necessitates an integration of micro-individual psychological aspects with the macro-collective socio-cultural contextual factors. Therefore, theoretical orientations from Sociology and Psychology will place the issue of language learning in the socio-cultural contexts of its occurrence at the same time giving the individual investment in the activity its due importance. Sociology helps to account for the infinite inter-relationships between 'the individual' and 'the society. The Sociological Paradigms provide different perspectives to perceive societal phenomena. A sociological point of view focuses on the dichotomous position of the world of Language and the language in the World. So much so that we cannot teach a language for long without coming face to face with social context factors, which have bearing on language and language learning processes.


Keywords

Social Psychology, ELT, History of Language Policy at the Tertiary Level.