This paper considers the special challenges facing learners of English in developing country contexts, and asks why a few individuals succeed in achieving competence in English where the majority more understandably fail. While research theory has shed light on individual learner differences such as aptitude, motivation and learning strategies, there has been very little empirical investigation...

The underlying constructs of aptitude and motivation in language learning have been a central topic SLA research. However, issues investigated this regard, not substantially discussed the effect teachers' practices on learners' aptitude. This paper, therefore, argues that novel research is needed to examine impact teachers’ classroom stimulating learners engage effectively improving their abili...

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...

Teaching a second / foreign language has been a controversial issue during the past decades. There are sets of factors which influence how successful a person is at learning a second language. Littlewood (1984) stated that a person's motivation to learn and the qualities of the opportunities to learn are two of these factors. The third set of factors is those which make up the person's ability ...

Second- and fourth-grade children were classified according to their knowledge of soccer (experts vs. novices) and IQ (high vs. low), and given 2 sort-recall tasks. One task included items related to the game of soccer and the other included items from familiar natural language categories. Previous research has shown that expertise in a subject can compensate for low levels of performance on te...

"Idegennyelv-oktatás és hátrányos helyzet: a nyelvérzék nyelvtanulási sikeresség összefüggései egy Kelet-Magyarországi helyzetű régió 11–12 éves korú tanulóinál. [Language learning in low socio-economic situation: Correlations between language aptitude and success foreign the case of 11–12-year-old students from backgrounds eastern Hungary]" published on 21 Dec 2022 by Akadémiai Kiadó.

It is unknown whether and to what extent cognitive individual differences may play different roles in paper versus computer-based second language (L2) writing. This exploratory study a first attempt explore this issue, focusing on the effects of working memory aptitude quality L2 writing performance. Forty-two Spanish learners English performed problem-solving task either digitally or paper, to...

The ability to learn a foreign language, language aptitude, is known differ between individuals. To better understand second-language learning, aptitude tests, tapping into the different components of learning are widely used. For valid conclusions on comparisons learners with backgrounds, it crucial that such tests be neutral. Several studies have investigated neutrality freely available LLAMA...