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EXPLORING SYNTACTIC PRIMING AS A MEASURE OF IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
This study investigates the validity of syntactic priming as a measure of implicit language aptitude. Syntactic priming refers to the tendency to reproduce a linguistic structure due to a previous exposure to the structure.
Shaofeng Li, Jiancheng Qian
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Brain, musicality, and language aptitude: A complex interplay

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Music and language are highly intertwined auditory phenomena that largely overlap on behavioral and neural levels. While the link between the two has been widely explored on a general level, comparably few studies have addressed the relationship between ...
S. Turker, S. Reiterer
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Language aptitude and language awareness: Polyglot perspectives

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This paper discusses the notion of language aptitude as a factor contributing to successful language acquisition achievements in polyglots. The difficulty in distinguishing between what is, indeed, language aptitude and what is language awareness is the ...
Kenneth Hyltenstam
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Effects of written corrective feedback and language aptitude on verb tense accuracy

Language Teaching Research, 2019
Robert Dekeyser
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Working memory as a partial mediator of the relationship between multilingualism and foreign language aptitude

International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
While the relationship between language experience and foreign language aptitude (FLA) has been studied extensively, little is known about the underlying intermediate link between them.
Yan Huang, Mengmeng Wang, H. Rao
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Exploring the roles of language aptitude and L2 grit in L2 achievement: Mediation of foreign language learning boredom

Language Teaching Research
While the significance of the cognitive language aptitude (aptitude) and the affective second language (L2) grit for L2 achievement has been well demonstrated, their comparative contributions and the mechanisms underlying their predictive effects remain ...
Haiyong Zhao, Yi Zhang
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Foreign Language Aptitude

Richard Sparks, Philip S Dale
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The associations between individual differences in language aptitude and working memory, and the effectiveness of input and output based instruction

Language Teaching Research
Despite previous research having demonstrated the comparative effects of processing instruction and output-based instruction, further investigation is required to examine the relationships between individual differences in cognitive abilities and these ...
Yan Liang, Lawrence Jun Zhang
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WHY IS THE COMPONENTIAL CONSTRUCT OF IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE SO DIFFICULT TO CAPTURE?

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Although this special issue reveals some promising achievements, most of the contributions show that tasks of implicit learning are not or are only weakly correlated with each other, and they have inconsistent predictive power on L2 acquisition.
P. Perruchet
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Discovering Aptitude for the Modern Languages

The Modern Language Journal, 1933
Author's summary.— This study describes the use of the Symonds Foreign Language Prognostic Test for purposes of prediction and placement in the modern foreign languages. Prognostic test scores correlate .64±.046 with first semester grades and they can be used to advantage in selecting good “risks” for modem foreign language study.
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