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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Selective admissions at universities in the United Kingdom aim to ensure a baseline language competence, yet, despite persistent achievement disparities across linguistic backgrounds, systematic comparisons of linguistic skills underpinning academic success remain rare.
Justyna Mackiewicz, Danijela Trenkic
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Multiword sequences do not predict speaking proficiency in dialogue: A pair‐level analysis
The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study revisited the commonly held view that the use of multiword sequences (MWSs) is a reliable predictor of L2 speaking proficiency in monologue, by extending the investigation from monologic to dialogic speaking contexts. We accessed dialogic performance data from 127 test‐takers of the Test of English for Educational Purposes assessed ...
Takumi Uchihara +3 more
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L2 English Reading, Spelling, and Cognitive-Linguistic Development
Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journalThis study explores the effects of two two-year literacy intervention programs (phonics and whole word) on L1 German speaking children’s L2 English reading, spelling, and cognitive-linguistic development (N = 49).
Heike Mlakar, Marco Schilk
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Softening the Border: A Capacities Approach to the Perception–Cognition Distinction
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Approaches to the perception–cognition distinction tend toward two extremes. Many embrace a hard border, treating perception and cognition as mutually exclusive, non‐overlapping categories. By contrast, eliminativism denies that any principled, theoretically useful distinction exists between perception and cognition.
Jacob Beck, Casey O'Callaghan
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Individual differences in adult second language learning: a cognitive perspective [PDF]
, 2011 What makes some people more successful language learners than others? Scholars and practitioners of adult second language learning traditionally have cast the issue of individual differences in terms of such constructs as aptitude, motivation, learning ...
Kempe, Vera
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract As people age, there is a natural decline in cognitive functioning and brain structure. However, the relationship between brain function and cognition in older adults is neither straightforward nor uniform. Instead, it is complex, influenced by multiple factors, and can vary considerably from one person to another.
Monica Baciu, Elise Roger
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Acta PsychologicaBackground: Late-talkers (LTs), defined as toddlers around 2 years of age with limited expressive vocabulary (
Mozhgan Asadi +4 more
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Attachment preference in auditory German sentences: Individual differences and pragmatic strategy
, 2019 Relative clauses modify a preceding element, but as this element can be flexibly located, the point of attachment is sometimes ambiguous. Preference for this attachment can vary within languages such as German, yet explanations for differences in ...
Harding, E., Kotz, S., Sammler, D.
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi +3 more
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