Language Aptitude : Advancing Theory, Testing, Research and Practice (Paperback)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Foreword by Rod Ellis

1. Introduction and Overview

1. The MLAT at 60 Years

Charles Stansfield, and Daniel Reed

2. Development and preliminary validation of a foreign language aptitude test for Chinese learners of foreign languages

Lanrong Li, and Shaoqian Luo

3. Language aptitude implicates language AND cognitive skills

Peter Skehan

4. Six decades of language aptitude research: A comprehensive and critical review

Shaofeng Li

Part II

Emerging Insights on Age and Ultimate Attainment

5. Difficulty and ease in learning foreign languages at the primary school level: general learning ability, language aptitude or working memory?

Amelia Lambelet, and Raphael Berthele

6. Language aptitude: Insights from U.S. high school students

Richard Sparks, Jon Patton, and Julie Luebbers

7. Language aptitude: Insights from Hyperpolyglots

Michael Erard

8. Language aptitude: Insights from L2 exceptional adult learners

Adriana Biedro?

Part III

Redefining Cognitive Constructs and Models

9. Working memory as language aptitude: The Phonological/Executive Model

Zhisheng (Edward) Wen

10. Declarative and procedural memory as individual differences in language aptitude

Joshua Buffington, and Kara Morgan-Short

11. Cognitive aptitudes for explicit and implicit learning

Gisela Granena, and Yucel Yilmaz

Part IV

Perspectives from Cognitive Neuroscience

12. Neurophysiological indicators of the linguistic components of language aptitude

Jinxing Yue

13. Neuro-psycho-cognitive markers for pronunciation/speech imitation as language aptitude

Susanne Reiterer

14. Towards a neurocognitive model for interpreting expertise

Minhua Liu

Part V

Research Agenda and Future Directions

15. The future of language aptitude research

Robert Dekeyser

16. From individual differences in language aptitude to personalized learning