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Peer reviewedSkehan, Peter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
A review of how second-language acquisition research accounts for individual differences focuses on research on aptitude, motivation, learning strategies, and learning styles and discusses such conceptual and methodological issues as data quantification, points of contact between variables, the multicausal nature of language learning, hypothesis…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Language Aptitude, Language Research
Peer reviewedChikamatsu, Nobuko – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Examines the effects of a first-language orthographic system on second-language (L2) word recognition strategies. Lexical judgment tests using Japanese syllabic script were given to native English and native Chinese learners of Japanese. Results indicated that Chinese speakers relied more on visual information in L2 Japanese words, whereas the…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Chinese, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics
