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Date Posted: 19:36:00 10/09/05 Sun
Author: Eduardo Ferreira Costa
Subject: Final draft: Citing resources: Factors affecting SL learning
In reply to: Eduardo Ferreira Costa 's message, "Citing resources: Factors affecting SL learning" on 07:31:19 10/07/05 Fri

When we mention intelligence, we refer to the most difficult aspect to quantify, once IQ tests do not measure precisely many kinds of abilities and strengths. Otherwise, the relation between high grades and good second language learners are not linear. According to a study conducted by Genesee (1976), apud Spada et al. (2001:52), there are aspects which prove that even if someone has a good grade in IQ tests, he or she has not achieved success as a second language learner.
Another aspect refers to Aptitude, which concerns to the individual innative capacity to easily acquire a second language. According to Lorraine Obler (1989), apud Spada et al. (2001:53), for those individuals with this ability, the language learning process demands less time. It is also important to consider that aptitude is composed by different types of abilities, such as the ability to identify and memorize new sounds; the ability to understand the function of particular words in sentences; the ability to figure out grammatical rules from language samples; and memory for new words.

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