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Teimouri, Yasser; Goetze, Julia; Plonsky, Luke – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Second language (L2) anxiety has been the object of constant empirical and theoretical attention for several decades. As a matter of both theoretical and practical interest, much of the research in this domain has examined the relationship between anxiety and L2 achievement. The present study meta-analyzes this body of research. Following a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Correlation
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Li, Shaofeng – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the construct validity of language aptitude by synthesizing the existing research that has been accumulated over the past five decades. The study aimed to provide a thorough understanding of the construct by aggregating the data reported in the primary research on its correlations with other individual…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Construct Validity, Language Skills, Correlation
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1991
A discussion of language testing looks at the relationship between the processes of language learning and language testing, particularly from the point of view of pragmatics theory. It outlines some of the theory of Charles Sanders Pierce and its role in the evolution of linguistic theory, as well as the work of other theorists concerning the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Language Aptitude, Language Processing, Language Proficiency
Bean, Ruth Ellen – 1990
Recent research indicated that a field dependent cognitive style, often culture-based, can cause problems for learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). English language ability and learning styles, and field dependence (FD), and field independence, were tested in 157 adult Korean and Japanese ESL learners in university and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
MacWhinney, Brian – 1994
Drawing on recent psychological and neurological research on how individual differences might interact with learning a particular language, the study examines how psycholinguistic research and theory can help in assigning military personnel to language training and to a given language. Using the Defense Language Institute's Defense Language…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Difficulty Level, English