... -expression in language learningThe humanistic approach to language teaching captures language as a means for self -expression. In this view, language learners are, after all, individua ls, and their ... individual qualities in performing speech acts. On the otherhand, the use of language to give an argument or comment, for instance, typically creates an occasion for the self – that is, opinions and ... there is strongevidence of an individual’s deep -lying pattern of thinking, feeling, and responding thatdefines that individual as distinctly himself or herself and not another.To define a person...