Relevância E Motivação: Propriedades Inerentes Da Aquisição De L2

Abstract

Much research has emerged in social and cognitive pragmatics, and linguistic studies have taken a new path. This new perspective also appears in studies of acquisition of additional languages, with new conceptions of learning and important elements for the acquisition of a language. Among them is motivation, which we believe to be a crucial element for language acquisition, as well as relevance, the cognitive property proposed by Sperber and Wilson (1986), which determines cognitive processing at levels of effect and effort. Our goal is to identify the relationship between cognitive properties, relevance and motivation and to determine how this relationship influences the process of acquiring second languages. For that, we used as a theoretical contribution for this research mainly the studies of Sperber and Wilson (2001,2005), Ryan and Deci (2000), Schwartz (2014), Tapia (2005, 2015), Kreitler (2013), among others. We could see that motivation and relevance are very important cognitive properties for the acquisition of L2, which are corresponding elements and dependent on the same cognitive and social factors. However, after relating the two properties, we infer that relevance overlaps motivation, which leads us to assume that motivation could be a component of relevance.