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Ferrando, M.; Prieto, M. D.; Ferrandiz, C.; Sanchez, C. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2005
Introduction: Numerous authors have investigated the relationship which exists between creativity and intelligence, and diverse results were found. Thus, Guilford (1950) includes creativity within the intelligence construct, Sternberg (1988) alludes to creativity as encompassing the intelligence construct; Gardner (1995) indicates a close…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Creativity, History, Spatial Ability
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Costino, Kimberly A.; Hyon, Sunny – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2007
This paper reports on a cross-disciplinary study by an L1 compositionist and an applied linguist investigating interrelationships among university basic writing students' responses to linguistic identity labels, their residency statuses, and their preferences for mainstream or multilingual composition. Previous L2 writing research has suggested…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Multilingualism, Language Aptitude, Basic Writing
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Holmes, Kathleen M.; Holmes, David W. – Sign Language Studies, 1980
Reports research on the communicative behavior of a hearing child whose parents communicated with him, from birth, in both signs and words. The child's expressive ability accelerated in both modalities and this is possibly attributable to the addition of the signed component. (PJM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Schulz, Renate A. – Modern Language Journal, 1991
Based on current second-language acquisition theory and research, it is proposed that curriculum planning and teaching activities be guided by three issues: supplying students with optimum comprehensible input; providing interaction in real communicative contexts; and increasing motivation to seek additional input and interactive opportunities.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Language Aptitude, Language Proficiency, Learning Theories
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Skehan, Peter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
A review of how second-language acquisition research accounts for individual differences focuses on research on aptitude, motivation, learning strategies, and learning styles and discusses such conceptual and methodological issues as data quantification, points of contact between variables, the multicausal nature of language learning, hypothesis…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Individual Differences, Language Aptitude, Language Research
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Widdowson, H. G. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Several problematic issues in second-language teaching and testing are discussed, including artificial distinctions made between the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and appropriate usage in each, the relationship of language skills and language ability, and the distinction between language usage and language use. (MSE)
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Language Skills, Language Tests, Language Usage
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Francis, Norbert – Language Learning, 2005
Childhood bilingualism may develop toward a steady state of balanced competence in 2 languages or toward an imbalanced competence in which one of the child's languages begins to undergo attrition or early stabilization. In child second language learning an analogous distinction is often drawn between additive and subtractive bilingualism. This…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Skill Attrition, Language Aptitude, Language Acquisition
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Kiss, Csilla; Nikolov, Marianne – Language Learning, 2005
This study aimed to develop, pilot, and validate an aptitude test for Hungarian learners of English. A literature review on the construct and tests of aptitude is followed by two parts: a pilot phase on the development of a new aptitude test and a main study involving 419 12-year-old children in 10 schools. Data were collected on the aptitude…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Achievement Tests, English (Second Language)
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Justice, Laura M.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Skibbe, Lori E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
PURPOSE: This research determined the psychometric quality of a criterion-referenced measure that was thought to measure preschoolers' print-concept knowledge (PCK). METHOD: This measure, titled the Preschool Word and Print Awareness (PWPA), was examined using the partial credit model (PCM) to determine its suitability for use by clinicians,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Evaluation, At Risk Persons, Item Response Theory
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Cutting, Alexandra L.; Dunn, Judy – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
This study investigates features of interaction between children that are linked to the development of understanding of mind, and asks whether these associations are evident across different relationships. Comparisons are made of the naturally occurring conversations in a sample of 43 4-year-old children, each observed with a sibling and with a…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Siblings, Speech Communication, Play
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Mynard, Jo; Almarzouqi, Iman – ELT Journal, 2006
This article gives an overview of a piece of qualitative research conducted at a women's university in the United Arab Emirates. The aim of the study was to evaluate the English language peer tutoring programme in order to highlight benefits and challenges, and to make informed improvements. The study drew particularly on participant perceptions…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Peer Teaching, Qualitative Research, Language Aptitude
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Tomblin, J. Bruce; Zhang, Xuyang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: This study asked if children's performance on language tests reflects different dimensions of language and if this dimensionality changes with development. Method: Children were given standardized language batteries at kindergarten and at second, fourth, and eighth grades. A revised modified parallel analysis was used to determine the…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Tests, Language Aptitude, Factor Analysis
Davidson, Fred – 1995
This study examined initial evidence of changes in fit to a unidimensional model for some language tests at multiple ability levels. Seven data sets were analyzed using the first phase of exploratory factor analysis: principal component eigenvalue extraction. Each data set is analyzed at varying n-sizes: whole group; random subsample; and five…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Language Aptitude, Language Proficiency, Language Skills
Barnwell, David – 1992
A discussion of the utility of research on language aptitude and learning style begins by examining the concept of language aptitude and the controversy surrounding it, which focuses on the nature of language aptitude, what characterizes it, and its significance. The research reviewed dates back to the 1920s. Tests used to assess aptitude are then…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational History, Language Aptitude, Language Research
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Cloos, Robert I. – Foreign Language Annals, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Language Aptitude, Language Tests
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