THE ROBUSTNESS OF APTITUDE EFFECTS IN NEAR-NATIVE SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

By Niclas Abrahamsson, Kenneth Hyltenstam. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2008

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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3. R. Dekeyser
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6. Kazuya Saito
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8. Holger Hopp

Citations in the corpus

• Age of onset, length of residence, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment in three linguistic domains (2013, methodology): “Abrahamsson and Hyltenstam (2008), on the other hand, found an effect for aptitude in younger learners and suggested that language aptitude seemed to be necessary in adult near-native SLA and advantageous in child SLA.”
• AGE OF ONSET AND NATIVELIKE L2 ULTIMATE ATTAINMENT OF MORPHOSYNTACTIC AND PHONETIC INTUITION (2012, methodology): “Although ages 12–13 still appear often in SLA research, either as an observed cutoff point in studies of nativelike L2 ultimate attainment (UA; e.g., Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam, 2008 , 2009 ) or as an a priori dividing point in studies comparing early and late learners (e.g., Flege, Yeni-Komshian, &…”
• The Role of Task Complexity, Modality, and Aptitude in Narrative Task Performance (2012, background): “Foreign language (L2) aptitude is considered to be one of the best predictors of language learning success (Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam, 2008; Dörnyei, 2005; Nikolov & Ottó, 2006; Sawyer & Ranta, 2001).”
• Hi-LAB: A New Measure of Aptitude for High-Level Language Proficiency (2013, background): “Indeed, the question of ultimate attainment is often not even explicitly assessed (e.g., DeKeyser, 2000), or nonnative speakers across a range of proficiency levels are treated as a single nonnative group (e.g., Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam, 2008; White & Genesee, 1996).”
• THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF LANGUAGE APTITUDE (2015, background): “…that Carroll conceptualized is intended to be predictive of learning rate in instructed contexts, there has been a body of research examining its role in affecting ultimate learning success in naturalistic settings (e.g., Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam, 2008 ; DeKeyser, 2000 ; Granena & Long, 2013 ).”
• Foreign language aptitude theory: Yesterday, today and tomorrow (2016, background): “Over the recent few decades (roughly from the 1980s until now), conceptualization of L2 motivation theory has undergone several paradigm shifts (Dörnyei 2010), starting from Robert Gardner’s classical Instrumental/Integrative motivation model (Gardner 1985), to Dörnyei’s more recent Process Motiva”
• ATTENTION, AWARENESS, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING (2012, background): “In a larger scale study of L1 Spanish learners of Swedish, Abrahamsson and Hyltenstam (2008) reported small yet significant aptitude effects in child SLA, and very large effects for adult SLA, confirming the hypothesis proposed by DeKeyser (2000) that a high degree of language aptitude is required…”
• The role of individual differences in L2 writing (2012, background): “…measure language aptitude, such as the Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) (Carroll & Sapon, 1959) and Pimsleur’s Language Aptitude Battery (PLAB) (Pimsleur, 1966), test language learners on the above mentioned four components (for a review see Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam (2008) or Robinson (2005)).”
• Perceived foreign accent in first language attrition and second language acquisition: The impact of age of acquisition and bilingualism (2011, background): “…accent has been found to correlate with length of residence (e.g., Asher & Garcı́a, 1969; Flege & Fletcher, 1992; but see Oyama, 19769), amount of L1/2 use (Yeni-Komshian, Flege, & Liu, 2000), attitude and motivation (Elliott, 1995; Moyer, 1999), and aptitude (Abrahamsson & Hyltenstam, 2008).”
• Contrasting Effects of Starting Age and Input on the Oral Performance of Foreign Language Learners (2014, background): “Studies examining learners’ UA after a long period of residence in an immigration setting have shown the younger starters’ UA to be consistently higher than that of older starters and in some cases nativelike (or near-nativelike; see Abrahamsson and Hyltenstam 2008).”