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Linguistic Dissimilarity Increases Age-Related Decline in Adult Language Learning

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Schepens, Job J.; van Hout, Roeland W. N. M.; van der Slik, Frans W. P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023

We investigated age-related decline in adult learning of Dutch as an additional language (Ln) in speaking, writing, listening, and reading proficiency test scores for 56,024 adult immigrants with 50 L1s who came to the Netherlands for study or work. Performance for all four language skills turned out to decline monotonically after an age of…

Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Cognitive Ability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

The Role of Morphological Complexity in Predicting the Learnability of an Additional Language: The Case of La (Additional Language) Dutch

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van der Slik, Frans; Hout, Roeland van; Schepens, Job – Second Language Research, 2019

Applied linguistics may benefit from a morphological complexity measure to get a better grip on language learning problems and to better understand what kind of typological differences between languages are more important than others in facilitating or impeding adult learning of an additional language. Using speaking proficiency scores of 9,000…

Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages), Applied Linguistics, Language Classification

English Learning Predictors of Listening and Speaking Self-Efficacy for Adult Second Language Learners

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Grafals, Zoraida – ProQuest LLC, 2013

The purpose of this study was twofold. First, this study was conducted to compare English communicative competency achievement between two different models of instruction. Adult English language learners (AELLs) participated in either the communicative task-based (CTB) or in a more traditional (MT) language instructional approach. The goal of the…

Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Control Groups