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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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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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A personal bookshelf of foreign language aptitude publications

Language Teaching
Like many in the profession, from the United Kingdom certainly, the teaching of English was a second, or more accurately, third career for me. After periods as a clinical psychologist and primary school teacher, the lure of travel took me to France.
Peter Skehan
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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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Setting them up for (grammatical) success: on the impact of metalinguistic explanations on young learners’ metalinguistic awareness and language learning aptitude

Language Awareness
The overlapping constructs of metalinguistic awareness and language learning aptitude act as predictors of attainment in instructional settings. Given the scarce input that young learners of English as a Foreign Language receive during their lessons ...
Paloma Delgado-Garza, María del Pilar García Mayo   +1 more
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Subcomponents of Second Language Aptitude and Second Language Proficiency

The Modern Language Journal, 2011
A factor analysis of a test battery that included early first-language (L1) achievement, L1 cognitive ability, second-language (L2) aptitude, and L2 affective measures to predict oral and written L2 proficiency was conducted. The analysis yielded 4 factors that were labeled Language Analysis, composed of L1 and L2 language comprehension, grammar ...
RICHARD L. SPARKS, NANCY HUMBACH, JON PATTON, LEONORE GANSCHOW   +3 more
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Foreign language aptitude and intelligence

Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
ABSTRACTNotwithstanding the predictive value of foreign language aptitude measures, the underlying ability or abilities tapped by them and their relationship to measures of intelligence are not well understood. This study provides a partial characterization of the nature of language aptitude through correlations and factor analyses of the Modern ...
Marjorie Wesche, Henry Edwards, Winston Wells   +2 more
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Cognitive Language Aptitude

Language Learning, 2018
AbstractAfter discussing key issues in the aptitude literature and presenting an updated, multicomponential model of cognitive language aptitude, we consider two analyses from a longitudinal investigation using aptitude to predict success in language learning.
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