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Verbal Working Memory but Not Attention Is Related to Language Proficiency: Evidence from Multilingual Speakers

Psychologica Belgica, 2020
Numerous studies have shown a consistent relationship between verbal working memory (WM) and native-language as well as non-native language learning abilities.
Marion Bouffier, Cristina Barbu, Steve Majerus   +2 more
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Dutch-Indonesian Interlanguage Psycholinguistic Study on Syntax [PDF]

, 2012
This article focuses on the psycholinguistic study of the syntactic aspects of Dutch-Indonesian interlanguage. The study is based on the interlanguage syntax observed in an oral test given to thirty Indonesian learners of Dutch as a second language ...
Riyanto, S. (Sugeng)
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English language proficiency, complete tooth loss, and recent dental visits among older adults in the United States

SAGE Open Medicine, 2020
Objectives: This study sought to provide population-based estimates of complete tooth loss and recent dental visits among older adults in the United States by English language proficiency.
Andriana M Foiles Sifuentes, Maira A Castaneda-Avila, Kate L Lapane   +2 more
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Language Dominance Modulates the Perception of Spanish Approximants by Late Bilinguals Language Dominance Modulates the Perception of Spanish Approximants by Late Bilinguals

Languages, 2020
The ability to discriminate phonetically similar first language (L1) and second language (L2) sounds has significant consequences for achieving target-like proficiency in second-language learners.
Martha Black, Marc F. Joanisse, Yasaman Rafat   +2 more
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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, Anderson, Anderson, Bachman, Bialystok, Bialystok, Butler, Carroll, Carroll, Carroll, Carroll, Clapham, Collentine, Colman, de Bot, DeKeyser, DeKeyser, Dirven, Dreyer, Durrell, Durrell, Dörnyei, Dörnyei, Elder, Elder, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Erlam, Field, Green, Hatch, Hu, Hulstijn, Karen Roehr, Klapper, Macaro, McDonough, Nagata, O’Malley, Pallant, Paradis, Ranta, Renou, Robinson, Robinson, Robinson, Sawyer, Skehan, Skehan, Skehan, Skehan, Sorace, Swan, Taylor, Westney   +57 more
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Influence of Language Learning Strategies to the English Proficiency Test Performance of College Students

JPAIR, 2018
Learning of English as second and even foreign language has been stressed out in all levels of education. Thus, teachers and researchers have been focusing on describing externally observable behaviors of language learners, followed by attempts to label ...
Harieth Cawagdan – Cuarto, Emelinda Rivera   +1 more
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY;

The Professional Medical Journal, 2012
Introduction: Each year, more than 30,000 students sit in the Government sponsored Entrance Test conducted by University ofHealth Sciences, Lahore for admission in Public and Private Medical & Dental Institutes of Punjab, Pakistan. Objective: In this study, we haveembarked to seek the relationship of the performance of students in the English ...
JUNAID SARFRAZ KHAN, SAIMA TABASUM, OSAMA MUKHTAR, Tahira Bano, Maryam Iqbal   +4 more
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Influence of Family Language Policies on Language Proficiency across Generations: A Study of Russian-Speaking Families in Germany

Languages
This study investigates the influence of selected aspects of family language policies (FLPs) on language proficiency across three generations of Russian-speaking families in Germany using data from a sample of 18 families.
Olia Blacher, Bernhard Brehmer
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English as a foreign language learners’ strategy awareness across proficiency levels from the perspective of self-regulated learning metafactors

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The previous three decades have seen a growing body of research into language learners’ self-regulated learning (SRL), language learning strategy (LLS) use, and their possible effects on proficiency.
Anita Habók, Anita Habók, Andrea Magyar, Gyöngyvér Molnár, Gyöngyvér Molnár   +4 more
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Assessing Second Language Speaking Proficiency

Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023
In today's global economy, most people all over the world need to speak a second language (L2) for study, work, or social purposes. Assessment of speaking, either in the classroom or as an external exam, is therefore an important task. However, because of its fleeting nature, the assessment of speaking proficiency is difficult.
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