Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 31] 2021
► pp. 469–488
This chapter reports on the results of a follow-up analysis of Granena and Long (2013), which found a significant relationship between language aptitude and pronunciation ratings on a read-aloud task in late L2 learners with ages of onset 16+. Granena and Long argued that the relationship could have been due to task effects, specifically to the fact that high-aptitude learners could have monitored their performance while reading aloud. The present study included speech samples from four tasks, two read-aloud and two spontaneous production tasks. The results showed that ratings on word list reading were the highest and that late L2 learners’ ratings on the two read-aloud tasks were significantly related to aptitude, after controlling for age of onset and length of residence.