Factors Leading to Success in Foreign Language Learning : A Comparative Study of Three Aptitude Tests
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This paper attempts to describe the nature of aptitude tests ; particulary, 1) the merits accruing to more effective and meaningful teaching situations which result from using them, and 2) factors which are closely related to success in foreign language learning will be discussed. To this end three aptitude tests have been analyzed and discussed. It seems clear that some factors (i.e. rote memorization, grammatical knowledge) may be more closely related than others to success in one's foreign language learning, but we do not yet have a full account of how and/or why. Some of the significant findings resulting from the present study were : 1) when the number of the criterion (with which the aptitude battery is correlated) was increased, the validity coefficients also increased, 2) I. Q. or marks in one's native language may well be used as a secondary basis on which one's aptitude toward foreign language learning is predicted. So far, we have no convincing data concerning how one's interest or motivation will influence his future foreign language learning. It may be that such an attitudinal factor will not, by itself, cause individual differences in acquiring competence in foreign language skills. Probably one of the most significant questions to be asked and studied experimentally will be : what factors are most closely associated with one's aptitude in developing expressive skills (speaking and writing) . Vigorous efforts are anticipated in order to shed light on this hithertofore unsolvable question.
- 跡見学園女子大学の論文
- 1984-03-15
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