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Journal articles on the topic "Aptitude for languages"

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Hyltenstam, Kenneth. "Language aptitude and language awareness: Polyglot perspectives." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 41 (March 2021): 55–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190521000027.

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AbstractThis paper discusses the notion of language aptitude as a factor contributing to successful language acquisition achievements in polyglots. The difficulty in distinguishing between what is, indeed, language aptitude and what is language awareness is the main focus of the paper. A polyglot is operationalized here as a person who, after puberty, (a) acquired/learned at least six new languages (L2s), (b) commands at least six L2s at an intermediate or advanced proficiency level, and (c) presently uses these languages relatively unimpededly in oral interaction. The article draws specifical
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Sparks, Richard, and Leonore Ganschow. "Aptitude for learning a foreign language." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 21 (January 2001): 90–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026719050100006x.

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What has happened with the construct of foreign language aptitude since 1990, at which time symposium participants from around the world agreed that the "Time has come to rethink the notion of what constitutes aptitude to learn foreign languages?" To answer this question, we begin with a review of studies on foreign language aptitude and its measurement prior to 1990. We then describe research and thinking in the 1990s in several areas, including affective variables; language learning strategies; learning styles as contributors to aptitude; and aptitude as a cognitive construct affected by lan
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Pei, Zhengwei, Yidi Wu, Xiaocui Xiang, and Huimin Qian. "The Effects of Musical Aptitude and Musical Training on Phonological Production in Foreign Languages." English Language Teaching 9, no. 6 (2016): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n6p19.

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<p>This study investigates 128 Chinese college students to examine the effects of their musical aptitude and musical training on phonological production in four foreign languages. Results show that musically-trained students remarkably possessed stronger musical aptitude than those without musical training and performed better than their counterpart in foreign language suprasegmental production. Students of high musical aptitude performed significantly better in suprasegmental production and Russian production as compared with those of low musical aptitude. Musical aptitude could exert s
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Shchur, Nataliia. "THE STRUCTURE AND COMPONENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES APTITUDE." Academic Notes Series Pedagogical Science 1, no. 194 (2021): 183–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2415-7988-2021-1-194-183-190.

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This study aims to explore the foreign language (FL) aptitude components as one of the crucial factors of successful language learning. Having conducted the research, the following results and conclusions have been drawn. FL aptitude is defined as individual psychological characteristics which determine and predict the dynamics of mastering FL, that is the rate, speed and progress of learning. The components of FL aptitude include language abilities (phonetic, lexical, grammatical and stylistic abilities), speech abilities (abilities to listening, speaking, reading and writing), communicative
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Christiner, Markus, Valdis Bernhofs, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, and Christine Groß. "What Makes a Foreign Language Intelligible? An Examination of the Impact of Musical Ability and Individual Differences on Language Perception and How Intelligible Foreign Languages Appear." Journal of Intelligence 11, no. 3 (2023): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11030043.

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Previous research suggests that musical ability is associated with language processing and foreign language pronunciation. Whether musical ability is associated with the ability to generate intelligible unfamiliar utterances has not been investigated. Furthermore, how unfamiliar languages are perceived has rarely been related to musical ability. We tested 80 healthy adults, with a mean age of 34.05 and a combination of 41 women and 39 men. We used batteries of perceptual and generational music and language measures to assess foreign language intelligibility and musical capacity. Regression ana
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Moreira, Maria Letícia Galizzi da Luz, and Fábio Alves. "Investigating the inter-relationships between beliefs, autonomy, and motivation in the context of foreign language learning/teaching." Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 4, no. 2 (2004): 113–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1984-63982004000200007.

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This article aims at investigating the beliefs of teachers' and students' of English as a foreign language in the public school network of the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The analysis focuses on five main topics, namely, aptitude to learn languages, the degree of difficulty of a particular language, the nature of learning languages in general, the learning strategies and the degree of autonomy and motivation of the students involved in the research. The results provide evidence that teachers' and students' beliefs are relatively similar as far as the nature and the degree of difficulty of
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Singleton, David. "Language aptitude: Desirable trait or acquirable attribute?" Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 7, no. 1 (2017): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2017.7.1.5.

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The traditional definition of language aptitude sees it as “an individual’s initial state of readiness and capacity for learning a foreign language, and probable facility in doing so given the presence of motivation and opportunity” (Carroll, 1981, p. 86). This conception portrays language aptitude as a trait, in the sense of exhibiting stability over long periods of time and being immune to training. The trait view of language aptitude tends towards the notion that it is innate, and indeed language aptitude has often been associated with the popular notion of a “gift for languages” (cf. Rosen
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Christiner, Markus, Christine Gross, Annemarie Seither-Preisler, and Peter Schneider. "The Melody of Speech: What the Melodic Perception of Speech Reveals about Language Performance and Musical Abilities." Languages 6, no. 3 (2021): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages6030132.

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Research has shown that melody not only plays a crucial role in music but also in language acquisition processes. Evidence has been provided that melody helps in retrieving, remembering, and memorizing new language material, while relatively little is known about whether individuals who perceive speech as more melodic than others also benefit in the acquisition of oral languages. In this investigation, we wanted to show which impact the subjective melodic perception of speech has on the pronunciation of unfamiliar foreign languages. We tested 86 participants for how melodic they perceived five
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Rafalska, Mariia. "Conceptual Principles of the Foreign Language Aptitude Assessment of Candidates to Ukrainian Higher Military Education Institutions." Political Science and Security Studies Journal 6, no. 1 (2025): 27–33. https://doi.org/10.33445/psssj.2025.6.1.5.

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The article analyzes the approach to the selection process of the higher military education institutions’(HMEI) candidates, in particular using the Foreign Language Aptitude Assessment (FLAA) as a tool and its conceptual principles. This article also examines the theoretical and practical aspects of the FLAA, outlines the key principles and functions of language aptitude, the criteria for evaluating language aptitude, and the relevance of modern technological tools, such as the Moodle platform, for organizing effective, objective, and standardized language testing. The Moodle-based FLAA is a c
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Singleton, David, and Colin J. Flynn. "Language aptitude, language interaction and age of language learning." Language, Interaction and Acquisition 12, no. 2 (2021): 284–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lia.21013.sin.

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Abstract This article reviews David Singleton’s books and articles published during the period 2014–2020. The first section concerns a popular book which he co-authored with Vivian Cook; the second gives an account of articles covering questions about the concept of language aptitude; the third deals with articles on the manner in which a learner’s competencies in different languages interact; the fourth section then summarizes his recent age-related work on second language learning in childhood, adolescence and midlife; and the fifth deals with his contributions on language learning in senior
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Aptitude for languages"

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Sorenson, Britainy Dawn. "Motivation in Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language: An Analysis of Profiles and Behaviors." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2264.

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This thesis examines motivation in English L1 learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language (JFL) by analyzing the students' responses to a questionnaire modeled after Dörnyei's research and an observational instrument called the Motivation Behaviors of Language Learning (MBLL) modeled after Guilloteaux and Dörnyei's (2008) research on motivational teaching strategies on behaviors. The data from the questionnaires were subjected to a discriminative analysis of students answers in relation to a high grade (receiving a B- or higher) or lower (C+ or lower) in their Japanese classes. A Factor Analysi
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Suárez, Vilagran María del Mar. "Language Aptitude in Young Learners: The Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test in Spanish and Catalan." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/38244.

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The present dissertation is concerned with language aptitude in young learners. The first aim of this dissertation is to validate the content of two new instruments: the adaptation to both Spanish (MLAT-ES) and Catalan (MLAT-EC) of the Modern Language Aptitude Test – Elementary (MLAT-E) (Carroll & Sapon, 1967). The second aim of this dissertation is to study the relationship between language aptitude, L1 acquisition and cognitive development. The norming study of the MLAT-E offers data of children from grade 3 to 6 while that of the MLAT-ES covers grades 3 to 7. In both norming studies, whi
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Chalmers, James. "How stable is second language aptitude? Effects of second language learning and language analysis training on second language aptitude test scores." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/376507.

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While second language (L2) aptitude has traditionally been considered a stable individual factor in SLA, more recent research and theory has questioned this assumption (Singleton, 2017). If L2 aptitude is stable, then the implication is that this set of cognitive abilities are genetic in origin and/or limited (Skehan, 1998). On the other hand, if L2 aptitude is not stable and is sensitive to experience, then it suggests that whatever constitutes L2 aptitude can be taught to make initial L2 learning easier and faster. While more recent studies have found that the L2 learning experience itself s
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Wistner, Brian. "Effects of metalinguistic knowledge and language aptitude on second language learning." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/250126.

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Applied Linguistics<br>Ph.D.<br>The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of metalinguistic knowledge and language learning aptitude on second language (L2) procedural knowledge. Three lines of inquiry were undertaken: (a) confirming the factorial structure of metalinguistic knowledge and language learning aptitude; (b) testing the relative effects of metalinguistic knowledge and language learning aptitude on L2 procedural knowledge; and (c) assessing the relative contributions of receptive and productive metalinguistic knowledge and components of language learning aptitude to L
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Alexiou, Thomai. "Cognitive development, aptitude and language learning in Greek young learners." Thesis, Swansea University, 2005. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42407.

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Current views of foreign language learning aptitude are adult orientated. Descriptions of aptitude are cast in terms of sophisticated language abilities and these are investigated by means of complex language tests. It is not possible within this framework to test, or even describe, aptitude in young children since their language capacities are still developing. Recent studies support the idea that there is a link between the general cognitive skills that learners possess and their success in learning their second language. They can suggest, therefore, which separate elements of cognitive abil
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Saleemi, Anjum P. "Universal grammar and language learnability /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35562111k.

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Kwan, Katrina. "Success in early and late French immersion : a study on language aptitude and motivation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55114.

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French immersion programs have continued to increase in popularity in British Columbia over the past ten years. The expected French language outcomes are the same for both Early French immersion (EFI) and Late French immersion (LFI) programs, yet it is commonly believed that an early start to language learning will lead to a greater level of second language proficiency. Research in the context of French immersion programs has not always supported this view. A variety of factors have the potential to influence second language learning and outcomes; however, foreign language aptitude and motivat
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Thompson, Meryl. "Language in selection tests : an examination, review and critique of language in tests used to select applicants for further education, training and employment /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EDM/09dmt474.pdf.

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Haslam, Naomi Ofeina. "The Effect of Language Aptitude and Strategy Use on ESL and EFL Learners' Pronunciation Proficiency." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8850.

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether language aptitude and the use of language strategies predict pronunciation gains in second language (L2) acquisition. A second goal was to determine whether these factors differed depending on whether learning occurred in an English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL) learning context. Eighty-six ESL students in the United States and one hundred EFL students in China were asked to take the Pimsleur language aptitude test. The top 15 or 16 and lowest 15 or 16 scorers on this test from each group were asked to compl
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Anderson, Sheri Lynn. "Differential gains in oral proficiency during study abroad| The role of language learning aptitudes." Thesis, Georgetown University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3559864.

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<p>This inquiry analyzed the relationships between individual differences and gains made in oral proficiency of adult, second language learners of Spanish during one semester studying abroad. Oral proficiency was measured using a pre/post-SA Computerized Oral Proficiency Instrument (COPI, CAL, 2009). Gain scores were correlated with two cognitive aptitude measures: 1) the Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT); 2) a phonological working memory test (WM); and 3) a series of motivational and affective aptitude measures including Willingness-to-communicate (WTC, McIntyre, 1992), motivation and othe
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Books on the topic "Aptitude for languages"

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Bogaards, Paul. Aptitude et affectivité dans l'apprentissage des langues étrangères. Hatier, 1988.

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Bogaards, Paul. Aptitude et affectivité dans l'apprentissage des langues étrangr̀es. Hatier/Didier, 1991.

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Sasaki, Miyuki. Second language proficiency, foreign language aptitude, and intelligence: Quantitative and qualitative analyses. Peter Lang, 1996.

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1939-, Hauptman Philip C., LeBlanc Raymond, Wesche Marjorie Bingham 1941-, University of Ottawa. Centre for Second Language Learning., and Carleton University. Centre for Applied Language Studies., eds. Second language performance testing. University of Ottawa Press, 1985.

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Mukōyama, Yōko. Daini gengo shūtoku ni okeru gengo tekisei no yakuwari: The role of language aptitude in second language acquisition. Koko Shuppan, 2013.

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S, Parry Thomas, Stansfield Charles W, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics., Center for Applied Linguistics, and ILR Invitational Symposium on Language Aptitude Testing (1988 : Foreign Service Institute Language School), eds. Language aptitude reconsidered. Prentice Hall Regents, 1990.

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DeKeyser, Robert M., ed. Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bct.116.

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Granena, Gisela, and Mike Long, eds. Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lllt.35.

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Reiterer, Susanne M., ed. Exploring Language Aptitude: Views from Psychology, the Language Sciences, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91917-1.

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Stefano, Bertolo, ed. Language acquisition and learnability. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Aptitude for languages"

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Malzer, Daniel. "Making Music and Learning Languages – Musicality and Grammar Aptitude." In Exploring Language Aptitude: Views from Psychology, the Language Sciences, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91917-1_11.

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Griffiths, Carol, and Adem Soruç. "Aptitude." In Individual Differences in Language Learning. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52900-0_5.

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Granena, Gisela. "Cognitive aptitudes for second language learning and the LLAMA Language Aptitude Test*." In Language Learning & Language Teaching. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lllt.35.04gra.

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Roehr-Brackin, Karen. "Measuring Aptitude." In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351034784-17.

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Wen, Zhisheng (Edward). "Language Aptitudes." In The Routledge Handbook of the Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429321498-35.

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Pattemore, Anastasia, Maria del Mar Suárez, Maribel Montero Perez, and Carmen Muñoz. "The role of language aptitude in learning L2 constructions from captioned and uncaptioned audiovisual input." In Language Learning & Language Teaching. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lllt.61.08pat.

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This chapter discusses the effects of aptitude on learning L2 grammatical constructions from TV series with or without captions. Study 1 involved 69 Catalan/Spanish learners of English (EFL) who watched ten episodes of an English TV series, and targeted grammatical constructions learning. Study 2 comprised 30 Flemish learners of Spanish (ELE) who watched two excerpts from a Spanish TV series episode, with auditory grammaticality judgement pretest-posttest to assess their learning of subjunctive constructions. Grammatical sensitivity and inference aptitude was measured using LLAMA F in both stu
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Habl, Cornelia. "Language Aptitude and Gender." In Exploring Language Aptitude: Views from Psychology, the Language Sciences, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91917-1_12.

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Graham, Suzanne. "Aptitude or motivation." In Debates in Second Language Education. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003008361-8.

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Skehan, Peter. "4. Theorising and updating aptitude." In Language Learning & Language Teaching. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lllt.2.06ske.

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Robinson, Peter. "Individual Differences, Aptitude Complexes, SLA Processes, and Aptitude Test Development." In Second Language Learning and Teaching. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20850-8_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Aptitude for languages"

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Da, Jeff, and Jungo Kasai. "Understanding Commonsense Inference Aptitude of Deep Contextual Representations." In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Commonsense Inference in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/d19-6001.

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PETCU, Tatiana. "Language development through didactic play." In Educația din perspectiva conceptului Clasei Viitorului: Culegere de articole [ale conferinţei internaţionale]. Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University, 2023. https://doi.org/10.46727/c.cv-2023.p216-220.

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One of the pivotal barometers reflecting an individual's cultural refinement, cognitive aptitude, and intelligence is the manner in which they articulate their thoughts orally. Throughout one's life, the refinement of speech and the augmentation of vocabulary remain ongoing endeavors. Communication, initiated in early childhood through fundamental elements of language, is a fundamental human need that underpins our existence. As we progress through life, our compulsion to convey our thoughts burgeons and takes on multifarious dimensions. Speech serves as the linchpin for a triad of functions,
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Yue*, Jinxing, Jiayin Li, Yao Wang, and Yifei He. "A Pilot Investigation of Measuring Language Learning Aptitude in Adults Neurophysiologically." In Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2019). Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191221.147.

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Kepinska, Olga, and Esli Struys. "Neural correlates of language aptitude during a lexical semantic categorization task." In 5th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics. ExLing Society, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36505/exling-2012/05/0019/000225.

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Брагилевский, Д. Ю. "ORAL TRANSLATION AS A WAY TO INTENSIFY THE PROCESS OF MASTERING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY ART STUDENTS." In Месмахеровские чтения — 2025. Crossref, 2025. https://doi.org/10.54874/9785605245896.2025.11.11.

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Присущее студентам-художникам умение запоминать большие массивы визуальных данных в подробностях, для чего они используют знакомые структурные модели, заполняемые переменными составляющими, может помочь им обрести базовые навыки устного перевода. Благодаря этому удается выработать способность связывать ментальные представления с узнаваемым звучанием необходимых в процессе проговаривания слов и выражений, встроенных в предложения, что может стать действенным средством создания прочного фундамента для дальнейшего усовершенствования освоенных знаний. Ability possessed by art students to memorize
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Reports on the topic "Aptitude for languages"

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Bienkowski, Sarah C., Sean Gasperson, Reanna Poncheri Harman, et al. Special Operations Forces Language and Culture Needs Assessment Project: Defense Language Aptitude Battery (DLAB): Perspectives from the Field. Defense Technical Information Center, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada634214.

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