A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TO THE TARGET LANGUAGE IS ESSENTIAL FOR LEARNING

The fact of having a positive attitude not only make goals to be possible, but reachable.

The feelings the student has towards the teacher will determine his performance in terms of getting a god or bad result in any area of the curricula, “if there are not positive emotions such as love, worrying, sense of humor in the whole learning process, there are not agreement between cognition and affections which makes socialization and creative processes difficult.” (Villarroel, 2005, p.2).

The relationship between learning and emotions begun to be studied in the 70’s, but it hasn’t been taken into account. And eventhough it plays an important part in the learning process, it is not consider when designing methodological and assessment strategies. Most of the time, schools give priority to rational thinking than emotions (Villarroel, 2005).