TESOL 103 - Week 06 - October 23, 2021 - Attributional Tendencies


 Attributional Tendencies

In the video we learned that Attributional Tendencies "refers to what do we attribute success, to what we attribute failures." 




"Attribution are references that people make about the causes of events and behavior."

"Are your personal attributional model consistent with those dominant in your culture?"

Internal attributions: personal disposition, traits, abilities, feelings (it's my fault).

External attributions: situational demands, or factors, environmental (it's their fault).

"Individualistic culture: attributes success to themselves and failures to others. Collectivist culture: attributes success to others and failures to themselves."




Although, even in an individualistic culture it is common a mother to ask herself what she did wrong when her children make bad decisions, society asks "Didn't your mother teach you?" However when her children do well, she will feel proud of herself and society will say she did a good job raising them.

Brother Ivers tells us to "Always question your attributions and think: Are these cultural attributions, reasonable, rational? Logical? Or should I judge things by circumstances?"

 


As teachers we are always judging, in some way it is part of the job, let's be careful on how we do it. 

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