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Peer reviewedDoye, Peter – English Language Teaching Journal, 1979
Discusses a research project carried out in Germany to compare the English proficiency of secondary students who had begun studying English in the third form (eight years old) with those who had begun in the fifth form (10-11 years old). (CFM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedWilson, R. Graham; Lynn, Richard – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1990
Presents a study of Irish primary and secondary schoolchildren learning Irish as a second language. Discusses intelligence abilities, attainment in Irish, personality traits, and attitude toward learning foreign languages. Concludes personality measures were not strongly related to cognitive measures, but attitude may play a role. Reports no…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Intelligence
