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Subcomponents of Second Language Aptitude and Second Language Proficiency

The Modern Language Journal, 2011
A factor analysis of a test battery that included early first-language (L1) achievement, L1 cognitive ability, second-language (L2) aptitude, and L2 affective measures to predict oral and written L2 proficiency was conducted. The analysis yielded 4 factors that were labeled Language Analysis, composed of L1 and L2 language comprehension, grammar ...
RICHARD L. SPARKS   +3 more
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Second language acquisition

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractSecond language acquisition (SLA) is a field that investigates child and adult SLA from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This article provides a survey of some key areas of concern including formal generative theory and emergentist theory in the areas of morpho‐syntax and phonology.
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Studying Second Language Production

2022
Abstract: In today’s globalized world, we are surrounded by words, sentences, and texts produced by second-language (L2) users. Databases containing spontaneous speech and assignments produced in foreign language classes provide a wealth of information on the eventual products that L2 users produce.
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Long-term relationships among early first language skills, second language aptitude, second language affect, and later second language proficiency

Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
ABSTRACTFifty-four students were followed over 10 years beginning in first grade to determine best predictors of oral and written second language (L2) proficiency. Predictor variables included measures of first language (L1) skill administered in first through fifth grades, L1 academic aptitude, L2 aptitude (Modern Language Aptitude Test), and L2 ...
Richard Sparks   +3 more
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Second Language Phonetics

2018
The study of second language phonetics is concerned with three broad and overlapping research areas: the characteristics of second language speech production and perception, the consequences of perceiving and producing nonnative speech sounds with a foreign accent, and the causes and factors that shape second language phonetics.
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Second Language Acquisition

1986
This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language ...
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Instructed Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Pronunciation

Language Learning
AbstractInstructed second language acquisition (ISLA) inquiry emphasizes the ways in which systematic manipulation of learning conditions may facilitate second language (L2) acquisition. ISLA research has tended to prioritize grammar and vocabulary over pronunciation.
Dustin Crowther, Shawn Loewen
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