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Book SynopsisEvery teacher knows that learners are notoriously variable in how successful they are at acquiring a new language. This interdisciplinary volume questions what it is that makes each of us good or bad at learning a second language.
Table of ContentsIndividual Differences in Second Language Learning: Introduction
Leah Roberts and Antje Meyer
Individual Differences in L2 Learning and Long-Term L1–L2 Relationships
Richard L. Sparks
Nature and Nurture in School-Based Second Language Achievement
Philip S. Dale, Nicole Harlaar, and Robert Plomin
Determinants of Success in Native and Non-Native Listening Comprehension: An Individual Differences Approach
Sible Andringa, Nomi Olsthoorn, Catherine van Beuningen, Rob Schoonen, and Jan Hulstijn
Individual Differences in the Acquisition of a Complex L2 Phonology: A Training Study
Adriana Hanulíkov´a, Dan Dediu, Zhou Fang, Jana Ba¢snakov´a, and Falk Huettig
The Structural Connectivity Underpinning Language Aptitude, Working Memory, and IQ in the Perisylvian Language Network
Huadong Xiang, Dan Dediu, Leah Roberts, Erik van Oort, David G. Norris, and Peter Hagoort
First and Second Language Speech Perception: Graded Learning
N´uria Sebasti ´an-Gall´es and Bego˜na Díaz
Second Language Proficiency and Cross-Language Lexical Activation
Janet G. van Hell and Darren Tanner
