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“Foreign” language aptitude predicts individual differences in native grammatical proficiency
Linguistics, 2023 Language aptitude is known to be a strong predictor of success in late second-language (L2) learning in instructional settings but is generally assumed to be irrelevant for native language (L1) acquisition.
Llompart Miquel, Dąbrowska Ewa
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The TUNJO battery as a predictor of phonetic ability: A survey among English Philology students
Crossroads, 2023 Some learners are more successful in foreign language mastering than others. Among the plausible explanations discussed in the literature (Carroll 1981; Skehan 1991; Dörnyei 2005; Stansfield & Reed 2019; Griffiths & Soruç 2020), the concept of foreign ...
Grażyna Gorbacz-Dailida
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A comparison between academic achievement and language aptitude among pre-service language teachers
Lenguaje, 2020 The main purpose of this research is to investigate whether there is a correlation between university pre-service language teachers’ language aptitude and their English achievement levels.
Kubra Aksak, Feryal Cubukcu
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Frontiers in Physics, 2023 While language aptitude and motivation are important contributors to second language (L2) attainment, two major gaps in the past research have been 1) a lack of non-linear models stemming from a naïve and tacit assumption that learning outcomes are ...
Peter Kim
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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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Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractThis experiment employed an individual differences approach to test the hypothesis that learning modern programming languages resembles second “natural” language learning in adulthood. Behavioral and neural (resting-state EEG) indices of language aptitude were used along with numeracy and fluid cognitive measures (e.g., fluid reasoning, working
Prat, Chantel S. +3 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 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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Students with language learning disabilities and difficulties in a foreign language classroom [PDF]
Specijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2016 The aim of this paper is to present a brief review of the factors significant for foreign language learning, with special emphasis on students with language learning disabilities and difficulties.
Ivančević-Otanjac Maja
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The impact of second- and third-language learning on language aptitude and working memory [PDF]
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020 An increasing number of adults learn more than one foreign language simultaneously. While the cognitive benefits of using multiple languages from birth have been studied extensively, little is known about possible cognitive benefits of learning multiple languages simultaneously in adulthood.
Ting Huang +2 more
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