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Raufelder, Diana; Jagenow, Danilo; Drury, Kate; Hoferichter, Frances – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
In order to enhance our understanding of individual differences in scholastic motivation, the present study examined if social relationships in school are equally important for motivation across a large sample of adolescent students. Based on past research as well as our preliminary findings, it was hypothesized that there would be four different…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Student Motivation, Interpersonal Relationship, Secondary School Students
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Luque, David; Luque, Juan L.; Lopez-Zamora, Miguel – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The study examined whether individual differences in the quality of phonological representations, measured by a categorical perception task (CP), are related with the use of phonological information in a lexical decision pseudohomophone task. In addition, the lexical frequency of the stimuli was manipulated. The sample consisted of…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Perception, Phonology, Classification
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Diaz, Begona; Mitterer, Holger; Broersma, Mirjam; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The extent to which the phonetic system of a second language is mastered varies across individuals. The present study evaluates the pattern of individual differences in late bilinguals across different phonological processes. Fifty-five late Dutch-English bilinguals were tested on their ability to perceive a difficult L2 speech contrast (the…
Descriptors: Identification, Acoustics, Phonetics, Word Recognition