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1	Memory and motivation in language aptitude testing Skehan, Peter January 1982 (has links) This research project is concerned with the prediction of foreign language learning success. Previous research into the importance of language aptitude for foreign language learning is surveyed, and the two areas of memory and motivation are proposed as worth further study. A number of memory tests and motivation measures, devised for the present study, are described. These measures are used with Armed Forces personnel, university students, and schoolchildren, in order to examine the relationships between these "predictor" tests, and the achievement (criterion) tests used to evaluate learning in the different settings. The results are analysed using correlational, factor, regression, and cluster analysis. The results indicate that the ability to integrate and learn material of unfamiliar structure, and the ability to extract and remember the propositional meaning of sentences both have significant and marked correlations with foreign language learning success. Associative memory is found to have significant but lower correlations with achievement scores, while primary memory measures appear to have little importance. Intelligence and grammatical sensitivity are also found to have marked relationships with achievement scores. The motivational measures only had weak correlations with the criterion test scores. Several aspects of foreign language learning prediction are discussed. There is consideration of the general role of aptitude in foreign language learning, and recent attempts proposing that such an aptitude is only of limited significance are rejected. There is also discussion of the Importance of aptitude for language teaching methodology. Finally, the componens of aptitude are described as they are currently understood, and suggestions for further research are provided. 370 Foreign language learning
2	Evaluating user interaction with interactive video : users' perceptions of self access language learning with MultiMedia Movies Gardner, David January 2002 (has links) No description available. 428 Foreign language learning
3	The acquisition of English wh-interrogatives by Dholuo L1 speakers Onditi, Tom L. S. January 1994 (has links) No description available. 410 Foreign language learning
4	Language production, grammaticality judgements, and rule verbalisations in second language acquisition : a study of the interlanguage knowledge of English wh-questions by EFL Rwandan learners Buregeya, Alfred January 1994 (has links) No description available. 410 Foreign language learning
5	The role of age and other learner related factors in achievement in English as a foreign language of Kuwaiti intermediate school students Al-Shammari, Abbas H. January 1988 (has links) No description available. 370 Foreign language learning
6	Achieving curriculum objectives : exploring the factors involved Gardner, Christine Elizabeth January 1998 (has links) No description available. 370 Foreign language learning
7	The linguistic repertoire and the learning of English as a foreign language : a case study of high school monolingual and bilingual students in Aleppo City, Syria Saour, Georges January 1992 (has links) No description available. 410 Foreign language learning
8	Adult learner strategies in foreign language grammar learning : A task-based study of approaches to the learning of grammatical structure in a micro-language, with a discussion of their implications for language teaching and materials Ryan, A. January 1986 (has links) No description available. 410 Foreign language learning
9	Cross-cultural pragmatic failure : misunderstanding in verbal communication between speakers of Arabic & English Shammas, Nafez Antonius January 1995 (has links) No description available. 410 Foreign language learning
10	#Begin your sentences with a capital letter' : facework and politeness in the Greek EFL classroom Aeginitou, Violetta January 1994 (has links) No description available. 410 English; Foreign language learning

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