Recent research has shown that the morphology of certain brain regions may indeed
correlate with a number of cognitive skills such as musicality or language ability. The main …

EV is a child with a talent for learning language combined with Asperger syndrome. EV's
talent is evident in the unusual circumstances of her acquisition of both her first (Bulgarian) …

Learning a new sound system poses challenges of a social, psychological, and cognitive
nature, but the learner's decisions are key to ultimate attainment. This presentation focuses …

Purpose This study examines the test's predictive validity of English language performance
and compares test constructs to identify the most effective predictors of English language …

Over the decades, high-intensity language learners scattered over the globe referred to as
“hyperpolyglots” have undertaken a natural experiment into the limits of learning and …

1 Background People frequently add one, two, or, less commonly, even three or four
languages to the linguistic repertoire they developed as children. Given the opportunity …

Garfield is an exceptional language learner and US polyglot. This oral history project
explores his trajectory from a childhood coma to knowing 15 languages. It examines his …

While language aptitude and motivation are important contributors to second language (L2)
attainment, two major gaps in the past research have been 1) a lack of non-linear models …

The article discusses one of the most important problems of modern primary school–the
development of linguistic abilities of students. The choice of the research topic is due to the …

While second language (L2) aptitude has traditionally been considered a stable individual
factor in SLA, more recent research and theory has questioned this assumption (Singleton …