FOREIGN LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND BARRIER IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
The article investigates correlation between foreign language aptitude and success in foreign language acquisition. Based on the pall of 100 students of a technical university the author draws conclusions about the role of psychophysiological factors in foreign language learning process: psychophysiological problems are not typical for people of student age, even though certain psychophysiological difficulties were mentioned by a big number of students. Based on the interviews with foreign language teachers the author makes the conclusion that poor foreign language aptitude plays a significant but not the deciding role in predicting success of learning a foreign language neither for students learning a language at home, nor for those studying in the language environment. The interviews also allow to make assumptions about the influence of learning environment on foreign language aptitude.