Individual Differences in L2 Acquisition

INDUCTIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING: ability to form and remember associations between stimuli

• TRUE

• FALSE

Components of Language Aptitude

• Phonemic Coding Ability and Affective Fltre

• Phonemic coding ability and Rote Leanrning Ability

• Grammatical Sensitivity and Learning Styles

• All of the above

LANGUAGE APTITUDE: natural ability that people possess for learning a L2

• TRUE

• FALSE

PHONEMIC CODING ABILITY: ability to pronounce sounds of a foreign L so that it can be remembered later

• TRUE

• FALSE

Motivation concerns the cognitive abilities that underlie successful L2 acquisition

• TRUE

• FALSE

Types of Motivation

• Environmental, Integrative, Instrumental, Intrinsic

• Integrative, Resultative, Affective

• Integrative, Instrumental, Resultative, Intrinsic

• All of the above

Learners CANNOT be integratively and instrumentally motivated at the same time

• TRUE

• FALSE

Motivation is only the CAUSE of L2 achievement

• TRUE

• FALSE

What are the three main learning strategies?

• Cognitive /Social / Metacognitive

• Coginitve / Metacognitive / Affective

• Cognitive /Metacognitive / Social-affective

• None of the above

Learners are generally ignorant of the strategies they employ and CANNOT explain their usage

• TRUE

• FALSE