TY - CHAP

T1 - New conceptualizations of language aptitude in second language attainment

AU - Kormos, Judit

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - This chapter discusses the link between working memory, phonological short-term memory and language aptitude and describes how these cognitive abilities influence second language-learning processes. I provide a critical review of the definitions and constructs of aptitude and elaborate on how phonological short-term and working memory and components of language aptitude might influence processes of language learning, such as noticing, encoding in long-term memory, proceduralization and automatization, and aid second language processing and production. The chapter also considers the stability of cognitive variables in the course of language learning and presents evidence that certain components of language aptitude are prone to change with intensive exposure to second/third languages.

AB - This chapter discusses the link between working memory, phonological short-term memory and language aptitude and describes how these cognitive abilities influence second language-learning processes. I provide a critical review of the definitions and constructs of aptitude and elaborate on how phonological short-term and working memory and components of language aptitude might influence processes of language learning, such as noticing, encoding in long-term memory, proceduralization and automatization, and aid second language processing and production. The chapter also considers the stability of cognitive variables in the course of language learning and presents evidence that certain components of language aptitude are prone to change with intensive exposure to second/third languages.

M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)

SN - 9789027213112

T3 - Language Learning and Language Teaching

SP - 131

EP - 152

BT - Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment

A2 - Granena, Gisela

A2 - Long, Michael H.

PB - John Benjamins

CY - Amsterdam

ER -