Cognitive and Sociopsychological Individual Differences, Experience, and Naturalistic Second Language Speech Learning: A Longitudinal Study

• Published in: Language learning Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 5 - 40
• Main Authors: Sun, Hui, Saito, Kazuya, Dewaele, Jean‐Marc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.03.2024
• Subjects: aptitude; Chinese languages; Coding; Cognition; English as a second language learning; experience; Individual differences; Intelligibility; Longitudinal studies; motivation; personality; Phonemics; Pronunciation; second language speech; Second Languages; Speech; Spontaneous speech; Study abroad

This study longitudinally examined the effects of cognitive and sociopsychological individual differences (aptitude, motivation, personality) and the quantity and quality of second language (L2) experience on L2 speech gains in naturalistic settings. We elicited L2 spontaneous speech from 50 Chinese...