Table of contents
Prefaceix
1. Introduction: Researching individual differences and instructed learning
Section I: Theoretical Issues
2. The theory of successful intelligence and its implications for language-aptitude testing
3. Motivation, anxiety and emotion in second language acquisition
4. Theorising and updating aptitude
5. Foreign language acquisition and language-based learning disabilities
6. Learning conditions, aptitude complexes, and SLA: A framework for research and pedagogy
Section II: Empirical Studies
7. The motivational basis of language learning tasks
8. The role of learners’ language analytic ability in the communicative classroom
9. Individual differences in working memory, noticing of interactional feedback and L2 development
10. Effects of individual differences in intelligence, aptitude and working memory on adult incidental SLA: A replication and extension of Reber, Walkenfield and Hernstadt (1991)
11. Aptitude-exposure interaction effects on Wh-movement violation detection by pre-and-post-critical period Japanese bilinguals
12. Age, aptitude and second language learning on a bilingual exchange
References
Index
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