Individual Differences in Digital Badging: Do Learner Characteristics Matter?

Individual Differences in Adolescents’ Driving Practice during the Learner Stage

Differences that do matter: A dialectic analysis of individual characteristics and personality dimensions contributing to computer anxiety

Computer anxiety, as defined and operationalized in the human–computer studies literature, has been synonymous with negative thoughts and attitudes about the use of computers. This approach, together with correlational analyses that have formed the mainstay of research on computer anxiety, invokes two important points. First, it can be argued that computer anxiety, by definition, implies an att...

L2 Learner Individual Differences: An Integrative and Contextualist Perspective

In the literature of learner characteristics in applied linguistics, learning attitudes, strategies and motivation have received most attention. These learner individual difference variables have usually been seen as background learner variables that modify and personalize the overall trajectory of the language acquisition processes (Dörnyei, 2009). Embedded within a mainly psycholinguistic per...

Individual Learner Differences and Second Language Acquisition: A Review

The level of second language acquisition depends on many factors controlled by nature or shaped by nurture. The present paper studies the role of individual learner differences in second language acquisition (SLA). The individual differences, viz., age, sex, aptitude, motivation, cognitive style, learning strategies, and personality are defined and classified. A detailed review of the studies c...

Predicting Stock Returns in a Cross-Section: Do Individual Firm Characteristics Matter?

It is a common wisdom that individual stocks’ returns are difficult to predict, though in many situations it is important to have such estimates at our disposal. In particular, they are needed to determine the cost of capital. Market equilibrium models posit that expected returns are proportional to the sensitivities to systematic risk factors. Fama and French (1993) three-factor model explains...