ABSTRACT
Mostly this book concentrates on the factors that L2 learners have in common. Teachers usually have to deal with students in groups rather than as individuals; it is what all the class do that is important. However, at the end of the lesson, the group turns into 25 individuals who go off to use the second language for their own needs and in their own ways. Particular features of the learner’s personality or mind encourage or inhibit L2 learning. The concern of the present chapter is with how L2 learners vary as individuals, mostly dealing with language in a Lang5 sense of knowledge in the mind.
