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Publication details [#45926]

Dewaele, Jean-Marc. 2007. Predicting Language Learners' Grades in the L1, L2, L3 and L4: The Effect of Some Psychological and Sociocognitive Variables. The International Journal of Multilingualism 3 (3) : 169–197.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | language proficiency | multilingualism | personality | psychological explanation

Language as a subject

Dutch | English | French | German

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This study explores how three higher-level personality dimensions (psychoticism, extraversion, neuroticism), one lower-level personality dimension (foreign language anxiety) and sociobiographical variables (gender, social class) affect Flemish high-school students' grades for L1 (Dutch), L2 (French), L3 (English) and L4 (German).