OCL Plus:Processes and Events in Object-Centred Planning [PDF]
, 2012 An important area in AI Planning is the expressiveness of planning domain specification languages such as PDDL, and their aptitude for modelling real applications.
Chrpa, Lukáš +4 more
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Apt to change: The problematic of language awareness and language aptitude in age-related research
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014 Language awareness and language aptitude often crop up in discussion of various second language acquisition phenomena, including age-related phenomena. There is a troublesome and ongoing definitional and theoretical problem in this connection: Different ...
David Singleton
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Phonetically Gifted Students – on the Language Aptitude Components [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2020 The focal point of the article is to explore the notion of language aptitude from the perspective of phonetically gifted students. The introductory part includes an overview of primary as well as contemporary theories and research findings regarding the ...
Katarzyna Zalisz
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Aptitude, experience and second language pronunciation proficiency development in classroom settings: a longitudinal study [PDF]
, 2018 The current study longitudinally examined the influence of aptitude on second language (L2) pronunciation development when 40 first-year Japanese university students engaged in practice activities inside and outside English-as-a-Foreign-Language ...
Saito, Kazuya, Sun, H., Suzukida, Y.
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Working memory and second language development: A complex, dynamic future? [PDF]
, 2020 Working memory (WM) is inherently dynamic and complex, being a multi-faceted system that links storage and processing components; yet it is widely understood as internal.
Jackson, Daniel O.
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Investigating language aptitude in the success of adult second language acquisition
Journal of Adult Learning, Knowledge and Innovation, 2021 The present study was conducted by using mixed methods design to investigate the role of language aptitude in second language acquisition (SLA). The quantitative method involved Hungarian adults (N = 27) of two kinds of schools: a technical school and ...
Anna Zólyomi
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Explicit and implicit aptitude effects on second language speech learning: scrutinizing segmental and suprasegmental sensitivity and performance via behavioural and neurophysiological measures [PDF]
, 2019 The current study examines the role of cognitive and perceptual individual differences (i.e., aptitude) in second language (L2) pronunciation learning, when L2 learners’ varied experience background is controlled for.
Saito, Kazuya, Sun, Hui, Tierney, Adam
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Neurology of foreign language aptitude
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015 This state-of-the art paper focuses on the poorly explored issue of foreign language aptitude, attempting to present the latest developments in this field and reconceptualizations of the construct from the perspective of neuroscience.
Adriana Biedroń
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Metalinguistic Knowledge and Language Ability in University-Level L2 Learners [PDF]
, 2007 Existing research indicates that instructed learners' L2 proficiency and their metalinguistic knowledge are moderately correlated. However, the operationalization of the construct of metalinguistic knowledge has varied somewhat across studies ...
Alderson +57 more
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Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2021 The ability to learn a foreign language, language aptitude, is known to differ between individuals. To better understand second-language learning, language aptitude tests, tapping into the different components of second-language learning aptitude, are ...
Momo Mikawa, Nivja H. De Jong
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