Language aptitude (testing; interface with other IDs; role in instructed FL learning)
EFL Learners’ Beliefs about Language Learning, Concern over Mistakes, and Language Achievement: Investigating Possible Relationships in an Iranian Context
... about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) contains 34 items designed to assess student beliefs in five different areas: (1) foreign language aptitude, (2) the difficulty of language learning, ...
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Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs about Foreign Language Learning: A Study of Three Different Teacher Training Study Programmes in Slovenia
... about language learning are significant for the learning and teaching process, and that learners may differ in their beliefs towards learning a new ...foreign language learning in ...foreign language ...
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Gender Gap in Aptitude Test of Iranian EFL learners
... that aptitude is not to be measured only in terms of one general language aptitude ...valid aptitude test should also give sub-scores which would point towards most appropriate forms of ...
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Social Aspects of Hookah Smoking Among US Youth
... second- language aptitude, years since first hookah use, past 30-day hookah smoking frequency, hookah flavor preferences, current use of cigarettes and other tobacco products, and past 30-day attempted ...
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The role of aptitude in second language segmental learning: the case of Japanese learners’ English /r/ pronunciation attainment in classroom settings
... For theoretical relevance, the findings can also be interpreted with reference to the influencing working memory model in cognitive psychology (e.g., Baddeley, 2003). In fact, there has been a recent paradigm shift in ...
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An Empirical Examination of the Association between Individual Differences Variables and Writing Performance of Iranian EFL Learners
... (namely, aptitude and working memory) and motivational (namely, language learning goals, self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulation strategy use) individual differences variables in writing performance of a ...
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Vol 7, No 1 (2014)
... to language learning (Horwitz, 1987, 1988, ...Foreign Language Aptitude; (ii) The Difficulty of Language Learning; (iii) The Nature of Language Learning; (iv) Learning and Communication ...
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Explicit and implicit aptitude effects on second language speech learning: scrutinizing segmental and suprasegmental sensitivity and performance via behavioural and neurophysiological measures
... conceiving aptitude in terms of implicit and incidental learning ...learning aptitude, which is measured through tasks comprising both practice and testing phases, implicit and incidental learning ...
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Pronunciation Learning Strategies, Aptitude, and Their Relationship with Pronunciation Performance in Pre-service English Language Teachers in Chile
... The study of LLSs has resulted in more focused areas of interest, as is the case of pronunciation learning in the present study. As Eckstein (2007) points out, there is very little research on PLSs in particular. The few ...
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PRONUNCIATION OF CONSONANTS /ð/ AND /θ/ BY ADULT VIETNAMESE EFL LEARNERS
... mispronunciation of two target sounds. In more details, the first three items asked the students whether they saw themselves had problems with /ð/ and /θ/. If the respondents reported that they had no problems, the form ...
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High-school Students’ Beliefs about Learning English and Arabic
... for language learning ...foreign language aptitude, emphasizing that the difference of students’ motivation for learning English and Arabic was also outstanding among the four significant ...foreign ...
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Measuring individual differences in cognitive abilities in the lab and on the web
... second language research (working memory and declarative ...second language research community, thus contributing to the study of individual differences in language ...
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TEACHING COMPETENCE OF STUDENT TEACHERS AT PRIMARY LEVEL
... teaching aptitude and professional commitment of primary school teachers Finding of the study is meddle teaching aptitude had shown a better classroom presentation, evaluation and overall teaching ...
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A STUDY OF TEACHING APTITUDE OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS IN RELATION TO SEX, INTELLIGENCE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
... teaching aptitude of low and high intelligent teachers of whole Malwa region, In conclusion, we can say that there is significant difference in the teaching aptitude of low and high intelligent teachers of ...
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A Study of Mental Health of Pupil Teachers in Relation to Their Teaching Aptitude in Punjab
... Bingham: Aptitude refers to those qualities characterizing people which serve to indicate how well he can learn to meet and solve specific kinds of ...An aptitude is a combination of characteristics ...
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VOCATIONAL APTITUDE FOR YOUNG UNEMPLOYED
... The aim of this study is presenting the structure and fundamental characteristics of a Mixed Experience Program Training and Employment whose overall objective was to introduc[r] ...
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Aptitude for destruction 1 pdf
... • Improve its members’ skills so that they can better apply its current weapons or tactics • Collect and utilize the intelligence information needed to mount operations effectively • Thw[r] ...
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Aptitude for destruction 2 pdf
... These groups, having a variety of characteristics, were selected to cover the full spectrum of organizations that have used terrorism: Aum Shinrikyo is a religious cult that pursued chem[r] ...
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Differential Aptitude Testing of Youth
... Abstract- Aptitude means a natural ability, natural skills or ...an aptitude to ...Differential Aptitude of college going students”, was under taken during ...some aptitude areas where as the ...
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Personality differences between high scholastic aptitude-average creativity and high creativity-average scholastic aptitude groups of college students.
... The m ain point of c o n cern h e re is th a t the d ata co llected on both the su b je c ts w ith high c re a tiv e ab ility and the su b jec ts w ith high sc h o la stic aptitude i s inadequate. S pecifically, c ...
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