ABSTRACT
Language Aptitude: Advancing Theory, Testing, Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge global perspectives on foreign language aptitude. Drawing from educational psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, the editors have assembled interdisciplinary authors writing for an applied linguistics and education audience. The book is broken into five major themes: revisiting and updating current language aptitude theories and models; emerging insights from contemporary research into language aptitude and the age factor or the critical period hypothesis; redefining constructs and broadening territories of foreign language aptitude; exploring language aptitude from a neurocognitive perspective; and exploring future directions of foreign language aptitude research. Focused on critical issues in foreign language aptitude and second language learning and teaching, this book will be an important research resource and supplemental reading in both applied linguistics and cognitive psychology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|84 pages
Revisiting and Updating Tests and Theories
part II|88 pages
Emerging Insights on Age and Ultimate Attainment
chapter 6|24 pages
Difficulty and Ease in Learning Foreign Languages at the Primary School Level
part III|72 pages
Redefining Cognitive Constructs and Models
part IV|58 pages
Perspectives From Cognitive Neuroscience
part V|28 pages
Research Agenda and Future Directions