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Individual Differences in L2 Achievement Mirror Individual Differences in L1 Skills and L2 Aptitude: Crosslinguistic Transfer of L1 to L2 Skills

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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Luebbers, Julie – Foreign Language Annals, 2019

Studies with U.S. secondary second language (L2) learners have revealed individual differences (IDs) in first language (L1) skills and L2 aptitude and shown that these IDs are related to L2 achievement and proficiency. In this study, U.S. students were administered measures of L1 achievement, L1 cognitive processing, and L2 aptitude; followed…

Descriptors: Individual Differences, Low Achievement, Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning

L2 Anxiety and the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale: Listening to the Evidence

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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Luebbers, Julie – Foreign Language Annals, 2018

Second language (L2) educators have proposed a unique anxiety for general L2 learning and an anxiety specific to L2 reading. Since the early 1990s, the L2 anxiety concept has been challenged on theoretical and empirical grounds. In this investigation, U.S. high school L2 learners were administered the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS)…

Descriptors: Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension

The Role of Motivation and Learner Variables in L1 and L2 Vocabulary Development in Japanese Heritage Language Speakers in the United States

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Mori, Yoshiko; Calder, Toshiko M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2015

This study investigates the role of motivation and learner variables in bilingual vocabulary development among first language (L1) Japanese students attending hoshuukoo (i.e., supplementary academic schools for Japanese-speaking children) in the United States. One hundred sixteen high school students ages 15-18 from eight hoshuukoo completed…

Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Japanese, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)