Title	Individual differences in second language learning / Leah Roberts and Antje Meyer, editors
Imprint	Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Descript	v, 212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Every 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. Offers a broad overview of current theories, key findings, and methodological approaches in the field. Brings together research from language teaching and assessment, psycholinguistics, and the neurobiology of language. Provides a sound empirical basis for the development of assessment tools and teaching strategies, and sheds new light on the language learning process. Investigates how people differ from each other in how they approach language learning, and in doing so goes beyond other studies which focus primarily on the behavior of groups of learners

Individual 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 [and others] -- Individual differences in the acquisition of a complex L2 phonology : a training study / Adriana Hanulíková [and others] -- The structural connectivity underpinning language aptitude, working memory, and IQ in the Perisylvian language network / Huadong Xiang [and others] -- First and second language speech perception : graded learning / Núria Sebastián-Gallés and Begoña Díaz -- Second language proficiency and cross-language lexical activation / Janet G. van Hell and Darren Tanner -- Individual differences in second language sentence processing / Leah Roberts -- Interactions between individual differences, treatments, and structures in SLA / Robert DeKeyser

1. Second language acquisition
2. Individual differences
3. Individualized education programs

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