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Journal of English Education and Teaching, 2021 This study is designed to find out students’ views on their explicit and implicit language aptitude profiles, TOEFL scores and language proficiency. Based on purposive sampling scheme, the data were collected from sixty-five students in the end of their ...
Kartini Tobroni +2 more
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Cogent Education, 2021 Studies over the past two decades have provided relevant data on the relationship between music and reading abilities although they fundamentally refer to aspects of the first language reading process of young children.
M.C Fonseca-Mora +3 more
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Individual differences in foreign language aptitude and its relation to fluid and crystallized intelligence [PDF]
Современная зарубежная психология, 2018 This article presents the empirical results of the study on the interaction between fluid and crystallized intelligence and individual differences in foreign language aptitude.
Gavrilova E.V.
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Language learning aptitude in older adults
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2023 Recent developments in language learning aptitude research have generated renewed interest in the topic, especially with regard to the distinction between aptitude for explicit and implicit learning.
Karen Roehr-Brackin +2 more
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Sixty years of second language aptitude research: A systematic quantitative literature review
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2021 Second language (L2) aptitude has been broadly defined as the rate and ease of initially acquiring a second language. Historically, L2 aptitude has been understood as a stable trait that predetermined L2 achievement, regardless of individual learners ...
J. Chalmers +3 more
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The Contribution of Music Abilities and Phonetic Aptitude to L2 Accent Faking Ability
Languages, 2023 This study examined how second language (L2) speakers’ individual differences in music perception abilities, singing abilities and phonetic aptitude relate to their L2 phonological awareness. To measure participants’ L2 phonological awareness, we used an
Marion Coumel +3 more
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Auditory Cortex Morphology Predicts Language Learning Potential in Children and Teenagers
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 In two recent studies, we identified neuroanatomical and neurofunctional markers of musical aptitude, attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder and dyslexia in the auditory cortex (AC) of children.
Sabrina Turker +4 more
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Pitch ability as an aptitude for tone learning [PDF]
, 2016 Tone languages such as Mandarin use voice pitch to signal lexical contrasts, presenting a challenge for second/foreign language (L2) learners whose native languages do not use pitch in this manner. The present study examined components of an aptitude for
Bowles, Anita R. +2 more
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Aptitude and experience as predictors of grammatical proficiency in adult Greek-English bilinguals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 It has been shown that individuals exhibit great variability in second language (L2) ultimate attainment. Some speakers reach native-like proficiency, others only achieve a rudimentary command and many lie in the middle.
Leonarda Prela +4 more
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The Effect of Language Aptitude on Recast-Driven L2 Morphosyntax Acquisition: An Overview
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022 The purpose of this paper is to review several studies on the effects of language aptitude on the recast-driven acquisition of L2 morphosyntax. Recasts are one of the most commonly used forms of corrective feedback in second language (L2) classrooms.
Ruirui Jia
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