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Yan Huang; Mengmeng Wang; Hengyi Rao – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
While the relationship between language experience and foreign language aptitude (FLA) has been studied extensively, little is known about the underlying intermediate link between them. This study investigates whether multilingual learning experience is correlated with FLA and whether working memory (WM) mediates this relationship. A total of 93…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Aptitude
Philip S. Dale; Richard L. Sparks – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Despite the widespread use and effectiveness of the Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) composite score in predicting individual differences in L2 achievement and proficiency, there has been little examination of MLAT subtests, although they have potential for illuminating components of L2 aptitude and the mechanism of prediction. Here we use…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Native Language, Secondary School Students, Spanish
Karen Roehr-Brackin; Karolina Baranowska; Renato Pavlekovic; Pawel Scheffler – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) research is of both theoretical and practical interest to second language (L2) learning, since it provides insights into the processes linking learner-internal individual difference factors and learner-external contextual variables including instructional approach--variables that jointly determine L2 outcomes.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Polish, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Richard L. Sparks; Abdullah Alamer – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although researchers have found strong relationships between first language (L1) skills and second language (L2) anxiety, less is known about how L1 skills in primary school impact L2 anxiety years after L1 has been acquired. Previous research lacked evidence for the mediating role of L2 aptitude and L2 achievement in the relationship. This study…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Elementary School Students
Concepción Soto; Monika S. Schmid – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Despite the extensive research on bilingual development, our understanding of how lexical competition unfolds in the bilingual mind remains limited. Previous studies have predominantly focused on crosslinguistic competition, neglecting the examination of the competition process within each language and the influence of diverse bilingual…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Speech Communication, Bilingualism, Native Language
Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh; Mahdi Rajaeenia – TESL-EJ, 2024
Language learning beliefs are considered to be an important factor influencing student learning outcomes. This mixed-methods research investigated English language learning beliefs of Iranian English language learners. Data were collected from 226 junior and senior male and female high school students using the Beliefs about Language Learning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Kuryeong Kim; Qingyun Yu; Susanne Maria Reiterer – Discover Education, 2025
Recent studies have suggested that language aptitude is a domain-general and flexible trait to acquire foreign languages, regarding various cognitive abilities such as memory systems as its crucial components. Despite a growing interest in working memory, however, much remains unknown about the impact of associative memory on language aptitude.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Language Aptitude
Chanyuan Gu; Samuel A. Nastase; Zaid Zada; Ping Li – npj Science of Learning, 2025
While evidence has accumulated to support the argument of shared computational mechanisms underlying language comprehension between humans and large language models (LLMs), few studies have examined this argument beyond native-speaker populations. This study examines whether and how alignment between LLMs and human brains captures the homogeneity…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Junlan Pan; Emma Marsden – Language Testing, 2024
"Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning" (TALL) is an openly accessible internet-based battery to measure the multifaceted construct of foreign language aptitude, using language domain-specific instruments and L1-sensitive instructions and stimuli. This brief report introduces the components of this theory-informed battery and…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Aptitude Tests, Second Language Learning, Test Construction
Lina Wirth; Burak Aydin; Timo Ehmke; Jan Retelsdorf; Poldi Kuhl – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Current trends in educational research focus on understanding situational processes and the dynamics of achievement emotions. In this context, the features of the learning environment and their situational impact on achievement emotions play a significant role. In this study, we consider academic language demands as a feature of the learning…
Descriptors: Academic Language, College Students, Video Technology, Instructional Films
Carmen Muñoz, Editor; Imma Miralpeix, Editor – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2024
This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input, conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills, such as vocabulary, pronunciation, and reading, while also considering learner factors, such…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Linguistic Input
Xinyi Zhang; Carrie Lau – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The present study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire assessing parents' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, supporting young children's English as a second/foreign language development -- Parent English Language Belief and Attitude Questionnaire (PELBA-Q). The PELBA-Q was piloted with 173 parents of kindergarten-aged children and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
Yi-Ju Wu; Hui-Chin Yeh – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
This empirical investigation rigorously evaluated the teaching potential of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) for enhancing the ability of learners to apply 30 near-synonymous change-of-state verbs in two EFL Freshman English courses in a college setting across two semesters. In the study, 32 participants in the experimental group and 22 in the control…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, North American English
Jeffrey Dawala Wilang; Jebamani Anthoney; Alvina Kullu Sulankey – Journal of English Teaching, 2025
This study examines high school students' beliefs about studying English, particularly their perceptions of language intelligence, aptitude, and age sensitivity in language learning. A total of 87 Year 12 students from a boys' school in Northeastern Thailand voluntarily participated in a pre-and post-intervention online language mindset…
Descriptors: High School Students, Error Patterns, Learning Processes, English (Second Language)
Raees Calafato – Language Awareness, 2025
Language teachers cannot help their students develop high levels of metalinguistic knowledge and language aptitude if they themselves are found lacking in these abilities. This article reports on a study that utilised a descriptive correlational mixed-methods research design to gather data from 89 multilingual teachers of English, Chinese, French,…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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