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Language Aptitude and Crosslinguistic Influence in Initial L2 Learning
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2020 Language-learning aptitude and crosslinguistic similarity between learners’ first language (L1) and the target second language (L2) are both known to facilitate successful L2 learning.
Lars Bokander
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Relative Importance of Learning Variables on L2 Performance [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2010 In this article, the results of a pilot study investigating the relative importance of various learner variables on L2 performance are presented. The study was conducted with the participation of forty students enrolled in a beginning Spanish class at a ...
Gabriela Olivares-Cuhat
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Diverse cultural backgrounds influence language aptitude and working memory in adult Chinese language learning [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPrevious studies have discussed the most important factor limiting whether learners can achieve advanced language proficiency. For adults, language aptitude is one of the key factors; for children, it is primarily a matter of early and sustained language
Chen Yu
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Correlation between EFL Students’ Language Aptitude and their English Proficiency
Journal of English Education and Teaching, 2021 This study is designed to investigate the correlation between EFL students’ language aptitude and their English proficiency. The data were collected from sixty-five students in the end of their eighth semester at the English department in faculty of ...
Kartini Tobroni, Farah Natchiar
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Indian Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2023 Language aptitude studies have recently been noticed to develop into a modern interdisciplinary research topic with a great enthusiasm related to educational psychology, second language learning, and cognitive neuroscience, especially with regard to ...
R. Karimzadeh, Farzad Sabeki
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A comparison between academic achievement and language aptitude among pre-service language teachers
Lenguaje, 2020 The main purpose of this research is to investigate whether there is a correlation between university pre-service language teachers’ language aptitude and their English achievement levels.
Kubra Aksak, Feryal Cubukcu
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Musical Aptitude and foreign language receptive pronunciation
Phonica, 2021 There is a growing body of literature that recognises the relationship between musical aptitude and language proficiency. Language is usually segmented into its subcategories when addressed in studies, while music is not.
Andrés Pujazón Rodríguez
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The TUNJO battery as a predictor of phonetic ability: A survey among English Philology students
Crossroads, 2023 Some learners are more successful in foreign language mastering than others. Among the plausible explanations discussed in the literature (Carroll 1981; Skehan 1991; Dörnyei 2005; Stansfield & Reed 2019; Griffiths & Soruç 2020), the concept of foreign ...
Grażyna Gorbacz-Dailida
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021 This article discusses the conceptualization, measurement, and validity of a recently emerged construct in the field of second language acquisition (SLA)—implicit language aptitude (alternatively “implicit aptitude”).
Shaofeng Li, R. Dekeyser
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Frontiers in Physics, 2023 While language aptitude and motivation are important contributors to second language (L2) attainment, two major gaps in the past research have been 1) a lack of non-linear models stemming from a naïve and tacit assumption that learning outcomes are ...
Peter Kim
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