How bad does psichology matter to english learning success?

What factors are responsible for success in language learning? If you learn English or any other language you can boost your progress by learning in specific way. According to the research most English students struggle and fail because of psychology, not because of methods, not because of teachers. Those things are important, but Tony Robbins talks about the fact that psychology is 80% of success. Psychology is 80% of success, so 20% are the methods you use to study, the schools you go to, the teachers you have, the books you use. Those are important,but the other 80% is psychology, your motivation, your emotions, how you manage your time. All of these things are in fact much, much more important.

Language learning is a process, but you can make it fun!
Language learning is a process, but you can make it fun!

You must love what you learn

We can observe in language classes that the enthusiastic students, the energetic students, the optimistic students always learn much faster. They succeed. The ones who fail, the ones who dropp out and quit, the ones who struggle have the opposite mentality. They have a very negative mentality. Their motivation is low. They tend to be pessimistic. They feel that they weren’t good at English. They had ideas that English is very tough, very difficult. They don’t have enthusiasm for English. They don’t love English.

So very important is to know how can you manage your emotions. How can you develop that strong, powerful, enthusiastic attitude towards English, how can you maintain it so that you don’t get bored? So that in fact you get stronger and stronger with English and your psychology gets stronger and you succeed, you reach your goals. You speak fluently, effortlessly. So among English teachers, language teachers, this topic is called Non-Linguistic Factors.

Dr. Stephen Krashen from Los Angeles, one of the best experts in language acquisition and language learning, has done many studies and he has also looked at many studies and he’s found that non-linguistic factors are equally or in fact more important than the linguistic factors to determine who is successful ultimately. What that means is that things like your emotions, things like your peer group, the community that you belong to, your feelings about English are as important or more important than the methods you’re using to learn English.