Second language pragmatics aptitude
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2022 The present study aimed at investigating whether language pragmatics aptitude is a separate component of the construct of language aptitude distinct from the already conceived components.
Nasrin Sedaghatgoftar +1 more
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Examining Individual Differences in Language Learning: A Neurocognitive Model of Language Aptitude [PDF]
Neurobiol Lang (Camb), 2021 A common practice in the cognitive neurosciences is to investigate population-typical phenomena, treating individuals as equal except for a few outliers that are usually discarded from analyses or that disappear on group-level patterns.
S. Turker +2 more
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“Foreign” language aptitude predicts individual differences in native grammatical proficiency
Linguistics, 2023 Language aptitude is known to be a strong predictor of success in late second-language (L2) learning in instructional settings but is generally assumed to be irrelevant for native language (L1) acquisition.
Llompart Miquel, Dąbrowska Ewa
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Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 This experiment employed an individual differences approach to test the hypothesis that learning modern programming languages resembles second “natural” language learning in adulthood.
C. Prat +3 more
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NEBULA101: an open dataset for the study of language aptitude in behaviour, brain structure and function [PDF]
Sci DataThis paper introduces the “NEBULA101 - Neuro-behavioural Understanding of Language Aptitude” dataset, which comprises behavioural and brain imaging data from 101 healthy adults to examine individual differences in language and cognition.
A. Rampinini +4 more
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“When Music Speaks”: Auditory Cortex Morphology as a Neuroanatomical Marker of Language Aptitude and Musicality [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Recent research has shown that the morphology of certain brain regions may indeed correlate with a number of cognitive skills such as musicality or language ability.
Sabrina Turker +5 more
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Language aptitude is related to the anatomy of the transverse temporal gyri [PDF]
Brain Struct FunctWhy is it that some people seem to learn new languages faster and more easily than others? The present study investigates the neuroanatomical basis of language learning aptitude, with a focus on the multiplication pattern of the transverse temporal gyrus/
Carmen Ramoser +5 more
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From Language Aptitude to Implicit Language Aptitude: A Discussion of Definitional Issues
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2020 Linguistic geniuses such as Heinrich Schliemann have long fascinated many with their exceptional capabilities to master multiple languages on top of their own mother tongues.
Wai Man Adrienne Lew
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Aptitude complexes: Expanding our view of language aptitude
The Modern Language JournalAbstract In second language (L2) research, aptitude is typically viewed as a multicomponential, cognitive construct. Yet we know that L2 learning is influenced by multiple learner individual differences (IDs) besides cognitive abilities and that these IDs interact.
Lani Freeborn +2 more
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Language AwarenessLanguage teachers cannot help their students develop high levels of metalinguistic knowledge and language aptitude if they themselves are found lacking in these abilities.
Raees Calafato
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