Exploring Language Aptitude: Views from Psychology, the Language Sciences, and Cognitive Neuroscience

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Reiterer, Susanne M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: English Language Education, 16
• Subjects: Language and education.; Psycholinguistics.; Cognitive grammar.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Language Education.; Cognitive Linguistics.; Educational Policy and Politics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword; Susanne M. Reiterer
• Introduction: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Language Aptitude; Victoria Ameringer, Daniel Leisser, Luke Green, Sabrina Turker
• Part I: Language Aptitude and Memory
• Cognitive Abilities: Different Memory Functions and Language Aptitude; Victoria Ameringer
• Aptitude for Vocabulary Acquisition; Hannah Hackl
• Working memory and language aptitude with focus on L2 vocabulary learning; Hyun Jung Kim
• Part II: Language Aptitude and Psychological Factors
• On the Role of Self-Efficacy as a Possible Component of Language Aptitude in the Acquisition of British /æ/; Daniel Leisser
• Motivation and Personality in Language Aptitude; Nejra Rizvanović
• Part III: Language Aptitude in Relation to Neuroscience and Musicality
• The Neuroanatomical Correlates of Foreign Language Aptitude; Sabrina Turker, Susanne Reiterer, Peter Schneider, Annemarie Seither-Preisler
• Let the Music Speak: Examining the Relationship between Music and Language Aptitude in Pre-School Children; Markus Christiner
• Language Aptitude in Relation to Handedness, Hemispheric Dominance, Cognitive Learning Strategies and Non-Verbal IQ: a Combined Quantitative and Qualitative Study; Klara Kager
• The impact of speaking a tone language on music aptitude; Niloufar Saraei
• Making Music and Learning Languages - Musicality and Grammar; Daniel Malzer
• Language Aptitude and Gender; Cornelia Habl
• Part IV: Language Aptitude and Socio-Environmental Influences
• Vocabulary Acquisition Strategies & Language Aptitude; Jakob Poschner
• Comparing the Language Aptitudes and Language Attitudes of Mono- and Bilingual Burgenland Croats; Katharina Anna Maria Krumpeck
• The Correlation of Early Multilingualism and Language Aptitude; Sofia Hörder
• The Role of Language Aptitude in Second Language Attrition; Astrid Elisabeth Lehner
• So what's the deal now!? Am I talented or not? Stefanie Rüdegger
• Part V Language Aptitude for Pronunciation
• Factors Affecting the Pronunciation Abilities of Adult Learners of English: A Longitudinal Group Study; Karin Richter
• Language Transfer vs. Language Talent? Individual differences and aptitude in L2 phonology of Persian-speaking learners of English; Zhaleh Ghafoorian Maddah, Susanne M. Reiterer.