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Liu, Chun-yan; Jiao, Yan; Qiu, Wen-ting – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
Despite extensive use of online language learning during the pandemic of COVID, there is insufficient research on what factors influence students' foreign language achievements in online learning conditions. This article investigated the roles of language aptitude and online self-regulated learning in foreign language achievement in mainland…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition, Online Courses
Park, Sue Min – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2020
Early conceptions of aptitude were concerned with explicit learning abilities in formal learning settings, which according to MLAT (Modern Language Aptitude Test) were measurable based on a phonemic coding ability, an inductive learning ability, an associative memory, and a grammatical sensitivity (Carroll, 1962). However, recent understanding on…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Aptitude Tests, Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning
Farshi, Najmeh; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Language Teaching Research, 2021
The purpose of this study was to find out, whether three methods of presenting input, were effective in relation to language aptitude. Persian-speaking learners of English were provided with 20 grammatical collocations (verb-preposition collocations) embedded in authentic passages, lexically/grammatically elaborated passages, and…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Linguistic Input, Grammar, Indo European Languages
Kim, Peter – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019
Energy Conservation Theory of Second Language Acquisition (ECT-L2A) (Han, Bao, & Wiita, 2017b), an interdisciplinary theory juxtaposing a physics perspective and an applied linguistics perspective, conceptualizes individuals' ultimate attainment as a function of dynamic transformation of endogenous and exogenous energies throughout the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Prediction
VanPatten, Bill; Smith, Megan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
In this article, we challenge the notion that aptitude--operationalized as grammatical sensitivity as measured by the Words in Sentences section of the Modern Language Aptitude Test--is central to adult second language (L2) acquisition. We present the findings of a study on the acquisition of two properties of Japanese, head-final word order and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Aptitude, Language Tests, Adult Learning
Hwu, Fenfang; Pan, Wei; Sun, Shuyan – Language Teaching Research, 2014
Finding the match between individuals and educational treatments is the aim of both educators and the aptitude-treatment interaction research paradigm. Using the latent growth curve analysis, the present study investigates the interaction between the type of explicit instructional approaches (deductive vs. explicit-inductive) and the level of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Aptitude, Grammar, Teaching Methods
VanPatten, Bill; Borst, Stefanie – Hispania, 2012
In the present study, we examine the roles of 1) explicit information about language provided to learners prior to treatment and 2) aptitude (specifically grammatical sensitivity) within Processing Instruction. Forty-two learners of Spanish in their third-semester of study were divided into two groups: those who received explicit information (EI)…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Grammar, Aptitude Tests

Gliksman, L.; And Others – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents results of an investigation into the test-retest reliability of the short form of the Modern Language Aptitude Test, with Canadian samples. (AM)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, French, Grammar, Language Aptitude