Language-learning aptitude is the prediction of how well, relative to other people, an individual can learn a foreign language in a given amount of time and under given conditions. Foreign language aptitude has been defined as a set of cognitive abilities that predicts a learner's rate of second-language learning and their ultimate attainment, meaning how close they will come to communicating like a native speaker, in both classroom and real-world settings. Understanding aptitude is treated as essential to a full picture of second-language acquisition, and the concept has shaped both second-language acquisition theory and the practice of teaching and learning languages within applied linguistics.
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Core ClaimLanguage learning aptitude refers to the prediction of how well, relative to other individuals, an individual can learn a foreign language in a given amount of time and under given conditions. 1 FAQs
Is language-learning aptitude something people are born with?
Traditionally yes, but that view has long been questioned.
The traditional view portrays language aptitude as a trait, stable over long periods of time and immune to training. That trait view tends towards the notion that it is innate. The view of language aptitude as an innate trait has, however, long been questioned.
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1. Wikipedia: Language Aptitude
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Language learning aptitude refers to the 'prediction of how well, relative to other individuals, an individual can learn a foreign language in a given amount of time and under given conditions'.
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