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Download full textSingleton, David – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The traditional definition of language aptitude sees it as "an individual's initial state of readiness and capacity for learning a foreign language, and probable facility in doing so given the presence of motivation and opportunity" (Carroll, 1981, p. 86). This conception portrays language aptitude as a trait, in the sense of exhibiting…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Short Term Memory, Second Language Instruction
