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Exploring Which Test-Taker Characteristics Predict Young L2 Learners' Performance on Listening and Reading Comprehension Tests

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Sok, Sarah; Shin, Hye Won; Do, Juhyun – Language Testing, 2021

Test-taker characteristics (TTCs), or individual difference variables, are known to be a systematic source of variance in language test performance. Although previous research has documented the impact of a range of TTCs on second language (L2) learners' test performance, few of these studies have involved young learners. Given that young L2…

Descriptors: Listening Comprehension Tests, Reading Comprehension, Performance Factors, Elementary School Students

Examining the Roles of Aptitude, Motivation, Strategy Use, Language Processing Experience, and Gender in the Development of the Breadth and Depth of EFL Learners' Vocabulary Knowledge

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Lee, Sunjung – SAGE Open, 2020

This study examined the simultaneous effects of L2 individual difference (ID) variables (aptitude, motivation, strategy use, language processing experience, and gender) on English as a foreign language (EFL) breadth and depth of L2 vocabulary knowledge of 492 Korean university-level learners. Independent variable measures included the: (1) Korean…

Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Structural Equation Models

Motivation and Aptitude: A Partial Validation of ECT-L2A

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Kim, Peter – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019

Energy Conservation Theory of Second Language Acquisition (ECT-L2A) (Han, Bao, & Wiita, 2017b), an interdisciplinary theory juxtaposing a physics perspective and an applied linguistics perspective, conceptualizes individuals' ultimate attainment as a function of dynamic transformation of endogenous and exogenous energies throughout the…

Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Prediction