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Where Does Language Aptitude Come From? Redux

Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
This paper examines evidence for relationships among individual differences (IDs) in L1 achievement, L2 aptitude, and L2 achievement. It begins by providing an overview of my academic journey from L1 educator to L2 researcher and explains the development
R. Sparks
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Long-term impacts of L1 language skills on L2 anxiety: The mediating role of language aptitude and L2 achievement

Language Teaching Research, 2022
Although researchers have found strong relationships between first language (L1) skills and second language (L2) anxiety, less is known about how L1 skills in primary school impact L2 anxiety years after L1 has been acquired.
R. Sparks, Abdullah Alamer
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The methodology of the research on language aptitude: A systematic review

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article provides a comprehensive and critical synthesis of the methods utilized in studies investigating the role of language aptitude in second language acquisition (SLA).
Shaofeng Li, Huijun Zhao
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The Roles of Language Aptitude and Online Self-regulated Learning in Foreign Language Achievements

Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
Despite extensive use of online language learning during the pandemic of COVID, there is insufficient research on what factors influence students’ foreign language achievements in online learning conditions.
Chunxi Liu, Yanpeng Jiao, Wenlu Qiu
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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

Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 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.
M. Suárez
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THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE TIMING OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
This study examines the associations between implicit and explicit language aptitude and the effects of the timing of corrective feedback (CF). A total of 112 seventh-grade EFL learners were assigned to three groups: Immediate CF, Delayed CF, and Task ...
Mengxia Fu, Shaofeng Li
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Stages of Acquisition and the P/E Model of Working Memory: Complementary or contrasting approaches to foreign language aptitude?

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This paper explores the roles of both working memory (WM) and more traditional aptitude components, such as input processing and language analytic ability in the context of foreign language learning aptitude.
Z. Wen, P. Skehan
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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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