Editors:
- Approaches language learning aptitude from different perspectives giving the audience a multifaceted insight into the field
- Contains novel, experimental, primary research which has never been published before
- All studies use a similar and uniform layout and methodology (e.g. aptitude tests), and are therefore very well comparable
Part of the book series: English Language Education (ELED, volume 16)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Language Aptitude and Memory
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Language Aptitude and Psychological Factors
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Language Aptitude in Relation to Neuroscience and Musicality
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Language Aptitude and Socio-environmental Influences
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About this book
This book presents original, empirical data from quantitative and qualitative research studies in the field of language learning aptitude, ability, and individual differences. It does so from the perspectives of Second Language Acquisition, psychology, neuroscience and sociolinguistics. All studies included in the book use a similar and uniform layout and methodology. Each chapter contains a study examining factors such as memory, personality, self-concept, bilingualism and multilingualism, education, musicality or gender. The chapters investigate the influence of these concepts on language learning aptitude and ability. Several of these chapters analyse hypotheses which have never been tested before and therefore provide novel research results. The book contributes to the field both by verifying and contesting existent findings and by exploring novel approaches to devising research in the subject area.
Keywords
- Language learning aptitude/ability
- Foreign language acquisition and learning
- Individual differences in language attainment
- Language aptitude in relation to personality and motivation
- Biological factors in language learning
- Bi-and multilingualism
- cognitive linguistic aspects of second language
- language education policies
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive neuroscience
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Linguistics and Centre for Teacher Education, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Susanne M. Reiterer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Language Aptitude: Views from Psychology, the Language Sciences, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Editors: Susanne M. Reiterer
Series Title: English Language Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91917-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91916-4Published: 16 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06327-6Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91917-1Published: 04 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2213-6967
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6975
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 388
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Educational Policy and Politics