Learner differences CHECK THIS ENTRY PLEASE

 A course in language teaching, Page 288
1. How important do you think motivation is for success in language learning,
compared to, for example, language aptitude?
 Is easier to understand motivation in terms of 'motivated' learner: one who is willing or even eager to invest effort in learning activities and to progress, language aptitude refers to the potential that a person has for learning languages. So knowing this concepts I can say that motivation is way more important than language aptitude because, for example, if someone has less language aptitude than motivation the only way to understand, study and practice a foreign language is motivation. In every difficult situation motivation becomes a very useful tool that comes of ourselves and that is, in my opinion, more satisfying than learning aptitude, being this something that we acquire.  


2. How important is people's past success in language learning for their motivation
to learn in the present and future?
In this case past succes in language learning would be a base I mean knowledge that we already know and handle. For future learning, that base give us confidence to keep learning and acquiring knowledge always.