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Bokander, Lars; Bylund, Emanuel – Language Learning, 2020
Over the past decade, the LLAMA language aptitude test battery has come to play an increasingly important role as an instrument in research on individual differences in language development. However, a potentially serious problem that has been pointed out by several scholars is that the LLAMA has not yet been carefully validated. We addressed this…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Language Tests, Test Items, Individual Differences
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Bylund, Emanuel; Ramírez-Galan, Pedro – Applied Linguistics, 2016
Language aptitude remains one of the most understudied predictor variables in L1 attrition research. The current study seeks to address this gap by investigating the effects of language aptitude on L1 retention in late attriters. Forty L1 Spanish-L2 Swedish bilinguals living in Sweden participated in the study, along with 20 functionally…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Language Skill Attrition, Retention (Psychology), Native Language