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The Etiology of Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition in Australian School Students: A Behavior-Genetic Study

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Coventry, William; Anton-Mendez, Ines; Ellis, Elizabeth M.; Levisen, Christina; Byrne, Brian; van Daal, Victor H. P.; Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2012

We present one of the first behavior-genetic studies of individual differences in school students' levels of achievement in instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). We assessed these language abilities in Australian twin pairs (maximum N pairs = 251) by means of teacher ratings, class rankings, and self-ratings of proficiency, and used the…

Descriptors: Twins, Second Language Learning, Genetics, Etiology

Morphology and Longer Distance Dependencies.

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Ellis, Nick C.; Schmidt, Richard – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997

Illustrates the advantages of laboratory research into second language acquisition (SLA) by describing two studies of acquisition of second language syntax. The first, conducted in Wales, addresses the question of whether human morphological abilities can be understood in terms of associative processes, and the second presents a bootstrapping…

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Computer Assisted Testing, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries