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Foreign Language Aptitude (Ch. 7)
Understanding SLALourdes Ortega (2009)
Twww.hodderplus.com/linguistics Published by Hodder Education © 2009 Mark Sawyer
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7.2 Cognition, conation, & affect in psychology & SLA
cognition: thinking affect: feeling conation: trying (wanting)
Research strategy Seek correlation, between ID & outcome shared variance: more meaningful? Beware of “significant correlations”
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7.2 Learning & not learning French: Kaplan vs. Watson
Alice Kaplan very successful: devoted to French from childhood
Richard Watson surprisingly unsuccessful at spoken French
How to explain the vast differences in outcomes in such learners?
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7.3 Language aptitude, all mighty?
No! Despite positive research findings,
many unanswered questions remain True nature Relationship to other ID factors
conative affective contextual
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7.4 Aptitude as prediction of formal L2 learning rate Measured often by MLAT 5 parts, measuring 4(3) components High predictive validity Questionable construct validity
Mismatch between test parts & theorized components Measures rote rather than dynamic memory Rate of formal learning less important than…
Ultimate Attainment Various learning conditions (ATI)
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7.5 Is L2 aptitude different from intelligence & L1 ability 3 domains overlap but differ:
L1 ability L2 aptitude L2 achievement L1 ability >L2 achievement
Academic skills, grammatical sensitivity underlie intelligence, L1, L2
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7.6 Lack of L2 aptitude, or general language-related difficulties?
L1 difficulties L2 difficulties Linguistic Coding Differences Hypothesis
(LCDH) (Sparks, Ganschow, et al.) Phonological-orthographic relationships
Phonological awareness: sounds alone phonemic awareness (segmentation) phonological decoding (integration)
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Dufva’s Finnish research
Phonological memory
phonological awareness (age 6)
word recognition,
listening comprehension (age 7-8)
reading comprehension (age 8-9) (with word recognition, phonological memory)
L2 (English) proficiency (age 9)
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Back to poor Watson
Spelling, reversal problems evoke LCDH Finnish schoolchildren L2 findings on phonetic coding ability
disfluent speaking (Wesche) mimicking sounds, remembering words
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7.7 Memory capacity as a privileged component of L2 aptitude
Exceptional learners Multiple languages (e.g. Obler’s CJ) Older learners (Call/Scott’s missionaries)
Static memory span (STM) EFL vocabulary of Finnish children(Service) Lookup behavior of univ. GFLers (Chun &
Payne) Active working memory span (WM)
Grammar, Reading (Harrington & Sawyer, cf. Juffs)
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7.8 Contributions of memory to aptitude, complexified
STM vocabulary learning @ early stages
(Masoura & Gathercole) grammar @ later stages (O’Brien+) formal but not semantic rules (Williams) long-term but not short-term gain
(Mackey+)
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7.9 Aptitude & age Aptitude doesn’t matter before puberty
Fundamental Difference Hypothesis:
Implicit vs. explicit learning (Bley-Vroman) Hungarian immigrant research (DeKeyser)
Parts of aptitude matter @ different ages First memory, later analysis (Harley & Hart)
Age & learning context conspire (Ross et al.)
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7.10 Does aptitude matter under explicit & implicit learning conditions
Explicit but not implicit (Krashen, etc.) Both explicit & implicit (Robinson, etc.) More implicit than explicit (Sawyer?) Mixed empirical evidence
Experimental (Williams, de Graaf, Nation & McLaughlin,
Robinson) Classroom (Erlam, Sheen)
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7.11 Most recent developments: Multidimensional aptitude
“The Peters”’ Proposals Peter Robinson
Basic abilities combine Interact with context & affect
Peter Skehan Stages of input processing Input, central processing, output
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Robinson: Aptitude Complexes
Example:Learning from feedback (recasts) requires… certain aptitude complexes (combinations)
noticing the gap ability (NTG) memory for contingent speech (MCS)
composed of certain basic abilities (aptitudes) pattern recognition, processing speed NTG phonological working memory MCS
Abilities Complexes Tasks Life
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Skehan: Stages of Input Processing
9 stages 4 macro stages1. Noticing
Working memory, phonological coding, etc.
2. Patterning Grammatical sensitivity, Induction
3. Controllingo Automatization, retrieval processes
4. Lexicalizingo Memory, chunking, plus above (Stage 3)
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Playing it to one’s strengths: The future of L2 aptitude? (7.12) ATI: Aptitude-Treatment Interactions Famous example from Canada (Wesche)
Ss (mis-)matched to treatment by MLAT profile Matched students achieved more
The Peters’ proposals promise more… specific diagnosis of strong/mixed/weak abilities possibilities for research, pedagogy