A Theory‐Based Approach to the Measurement of Foreign Language Learning Ability: The Canal‐F Theory and Test

By Elena L. Grigornko, Robert J. Sternberg, M. Ehrman. 2000

227 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Shaofeng Li
2. Michael Harrington
3. Alan Juffs
4. Judit Kormos
5. Marianne Nikolov
6. J. Alderson
7. Csilla Kiss
8. A. Sáfár

In Language and Linguistics

1. Shaofeng Li
2. Alan Juffs
3. Michael Harrington
4. Judit Kormos
5. Marianne Nikolov
6. J. Alderson
7. Csilla Kiss
8. A. Sáfár

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Shaofeng Li
2. Alan Juffs
3. A. Sáfár
4. Judit Kormos
5. Marianne Nikolov
6. J. Alderson
7. Michael Harrington
8. Csilla Kiss

Citations in the corpus

• Aspects of working memory in L2 learning (2011, background): “L2 articles rarely report reliability values (Hummel (2009) is an exception).”
• Revisiting problems with foreign language aptitude (2008, background): “73 (Grigorenko et al. 2000). Ehrman and Oxford (1995) found that among individual differences it is language aptitude that correlates most closely with foreign language performance, explaining 25 % of the variance. In a Hungarian context similar to that of our study, Nikolov and Ottó (2006) found th”
• THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF LANGUAGE APTITUDE (2015, background): “The test battery (CANAL-F) gauging the abilities includes tasks involving the learning of the vocabulary and morphosyntax of an artifi cial language called Ursulu.”
• Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency: The Interface between Learning and Assessment (2005, background): “Roehr (2004) also suggests that language aptitude might prove to be a variable that could help in the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency, and she discusses the interesting differences in construct between the MLAT (Carroll and Sapon, 1959) and the CANAL-FT (Grigorenko et al., 2000).”
• The role of individual differences in L2 writing (2012, background): “There is also a long-standing tradition of motivation research in educational psychology that is particularly relevant for the study of motivation in writing.”
• Developing, Piloting, and Validating an Instrument to Measure Young Learners’ Aptitude (2005, background): “Cognitive Ability for Novelty in Acquisition in Language (CANAL-FT; Grigorenko et al., 2000) represents a recent and novel attempt at the reconceptualization of the construct of foreign language learning aptitude, claiming that the central abilities required for foreign language acquisition are the ”