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Language aptitude, language interaction and age of language learning
Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 2021Abstract This article reviews David Singleton’s books and articles published during the period 2014–2020. The first section concerns a popular book which he co-authored with Vivian Cook; the second gives an account of articles covering questions about the concept of language aptitude; the third deals with articles on the manner in which a learner’s
David Singleton, Colin J. Flynn
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Aptitude for learning a foreign language
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2001What has happened with the construct of foreign language aptitude since 1990, at which time symposium participants from around the world agreed that the "Time has come to rethink the notion of what constitutes aptitude to learn foreign languages?" To answer this question, we begin with a review of studies on foreign language aptitude and its ...
Richard Sparks, Leonore Ganschow
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Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning
2021This volume brings together seven empirical studies about aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI), i.e., about how (second language) learners with different aptitudes match or don’t match with different educational treatments; and aptitude-testing interactions, i.e., about how learners with different aptitudes perform better or worse depending on the way
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Cognitive aptitudes for second language learning and the LLAMA Language Aptitude Test
2013The LLAMA Language Aptitude Tests (Meara 2005) are a set of exploratory tests designed to assess aptitude for second language (L2) learning. In its current or earlier version (i.e. the LLAMA or LAT), this battery of four subtests has been used in an increasing number of studies in the second language acquisition field.
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Foreign Language Aptitude and Foreign Language Learning
The field of language aptitude can tell us a lot about the acquisition foreign languages in children and adolescents, who have been so far under-researched populations. Although memory and auditory abilities involve more implicit processes and are therefore more relevant for child learners, research shows they might be particularly important in ...openaire +1 more source
Foreign Language Learning Differences:
The Modern Language Journal, 1991immersing an adult in a foreign language culture would force or motivate that individual to learn the language.' In the same audience sat a woman who admitted to having spent two years in each of three northern European countries with her husband, who had failed to learn any of the languages involved.2 Testimonials continued as conference participants ...
RICHARD L. SPARKS, LEONORE GANSCHOW
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Effects of metalinguistic knowledge and language aptitude on second language learning
2014The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of metalinguistic knowledge and language learning aptitude on second language (L2) procedural knowledge. Three lines of inquiry were undertaken: (a) confirming the factorial structure of metalinguistic knowledge and language learning aptitude; (b) testing the relative effects of metalinguistic ...
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The role of foreign language aptitude in a model of school learning
Language Testing, 1986[In this article Skehan reexamines the Carroll Model of School Learning, and suggests that it has considerable import for the neglected field of aptitude testing.]
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Written languaging, language aptitude, and L2 learning through dictogloss tasks
Abstract Languaging, learners’ reflections/comments on language use, has been shown to facilitate second language (L2) learning, presumably because it creates opportunities for noticing L2 constructions. If so, it would appear that the extent to which learners can make use of these opportunities might be influenced by their ...Masako Ishikawa, Andrea Révész
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The impact of second- and third-language learning on language aptitude and working memory
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022Ting Huang +2 more
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