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Implicit Aptitude in SLA, in Contrast to Explicit Aptitude [PDF]
Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2020 Early conceptions of aptitude were concerned with explicit learning abilities in formal learning settings, which according to MLAT (Modern Language Aptitude Test) were measurable based on a phonemic coding ability, an inductive learning ability, an associative memory, and a grammatical sensitivity (Carroll, 1962).
Park, Sue Min
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Is language aptitude immune to experience? Divergent evidence from bilingualism vs. blindness [PDF]
, 2023 Research articles on language aptitude, both past and recent, nearly without exception start off with a summative definition of the construct itself, declaring that language aptitude is generally considered to be a largely innate and relatively fixed ...
Abrahamsson, Niclas,, Smeds, Helena,
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Machine learning guided aptamer refinement and discovery
Nature Communications, 2021 Current aptamer discovery approaches are unable to probe the complete space of possible sequences. Here, the authors use machine learning to facilitate the development of DNA aptamers with improved binding affinities, and truncate them without ...
Ali Bashir +16 more
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Clinics and Practice, 2022 Background: Tele-prehabilitation is a behaviour change intervention that facilities the modification of unhealthy lifestyle behaviours. Understanding patients’ experiences of tele-prehabilitation provides important insights into service improvement.
Fiona Wu +2 more
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A Need for an Aptitude Test for Young Learners in Catalan: The Case of the Modern Language Aptitude Test – Elementary in Catalan [PDF]
, 2022 Young learners’ language aptitude is understudied due to a lack of tests covering this period of life. Young learners, in contrast with adults, are still acquiring their L1.
Maria-del-Mar Suárez
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Practical skills of persons with vision impairment [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2023 Background/Aim. The acquisition of practical skills (PS), as well as adaptive behavior (AB) in general, is affected by an array of personal and environmental factors. The aim of this study was to determine the level of a c-quisition of practical adaptive
Anđelković Marija +3 more
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Reflective writing and its impact on empathy in medical education: systematic review [PDF]
Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 2014 Purpose: Medical schools are increasingly aware of the ways in which physician empathy can have a profound impact on patients’ lives and have developed humanities initiatives to address this concern.
Isabel Chen, Connor Forbes
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Aptitude measurement: is measurement validity compromised in the morning
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the General Aptitude Test (GAT), a national instrument for the measurement of aptitude/achievement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as a function of daytime testing ...
Georgios Sideridis +2 more
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Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2021 The ability to learn a foreign language, language aptitude, is known to differ between individuals. To better understand second-language learning, language aptitude tests, tapping into the different components of second-language learning aptitude, are ...
Momo Mikawa, Nivja H. De Jong
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Sixty years of second language aptitude research : A systematic quantitative literature review [PDF]
, 2021 Second language (L2) aptitude has been broadly defined as the rate and ease of initially acquiring a second language. Historically, L2 aptitude has been understood as a stable trait that predetermined L2 achievement, regardless of individual learners ...
Chalmers, James +13 more
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