The relationship between aptitude and working memory: an instructed SLA context

Yalçın, Şebnem; Çeçen, Sevdeğer; Erçetin, Gülcan

doi:10.1080/09658416.2015.1122026

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“…Correlations between analytic language ability as tested by the Llama F and WM have been identified several times (Granena, 2013;Sáfár & Kormos, 2008;Yalcin, 2012;Yalcin, Cecen & Ercetin, 2016;Yilmaz, 2013). The present study, however, cannot confirm a relationship between WM and grammatical inferencing (Llama F).…”

Section: Working Memory and Phonetic Aptitudecontrasting

confidence: 54%

Sing Chinese and tap Tagalog? Predicting individual differences in musical and phonetic aptitude using language families differing by sound-typology

Christiner

Rüdegger

Reiterer

2018

International Journal of Multilingualism

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Section: Working Memory and Phonetic Aptitudecontrasting

confidence: 54%

Sing Chinese and tap Tagalog? Predicting individual differences in musical and phonetic aptitude using language families differing by sound-typology

Christiner

Rüdegger

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2018

International Journal of Multilingualism

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“…Skehan's (1998) information processing view of aptitude also states that working memory is involved in many different stages of language acquisition. Studies investigating the relationship between the LLAMA and working memory components include Granena (2013a), Yilmaz (2013), Jackson (2014), Azizi (2015), and Yalcin, Cencen, and Ercetin (2016). In Granena's (2013a) validation study, LLAMA D displayed a weak association with working memory in a principal component analysis (r = .35 with a working memory dominated principal component), whereas the other three LLAMA subtests seemed unrelated to working memory.…”

Section: Language Aptitude and The Llama Test Batterymentioning

confidence: 99%

Probing the Internal Validity of the LLAMA Language Aptitude Tests

Bokander

Bylund

2019

Language Learning

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Over the past decade, the LLAMA language aptitude test battery has come to play an increasingly important role as an instrument in research on individual differences in language development. However, a potentially serious problem that has been pointed out by several scholars is that the LLAMA has not yet been carefully validated. We addressed this issue by examining the internal validity of this test battery. We collected LLAMA data from 350 participants and assessed these data using classical item analysis, Rasch analysis, and principal component analysis within a framework of best practices in educational and psychological test validation. The results show that only one out of the four subtests (LLAMA B) produced scores that fit a latent trait model with sufficient accuracy. This suggests that researchers using the LLAMA battery must treat their results with appropriate carefulness and also that there is potential for refining the LLAMA further.

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“…As LLAMA was originally developed for exploratory and non-high-stakes purposes (Meara, 2005), it is necessary to assess its reliability and validity. Such investigations have recently commenced, and potential and limits are gradually emerging (Bokander & Bylund, 2019;Granena, 2013aGranena, , 2019Rogers et al, 2017;Yalçın et al, 2016).…”

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Probing the Construct Validity of Llama_d as a Measure of Implicit Learning Aptitude

Suzuki

2021

Stud Second Lang Acquis

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A subtest of the LLAMA test battery (LLAMA_D) has been proposed as a potential test of implicit learning aptitude. To improve its construct validity, in the present study, the original LLAMA_D (a) instructions for incidental learning were modified, and (b) confidence ratings of test responses and (c) reaction time (RT) measurements were added. This revised LLAMA_D was administered along with the other LLAMA subtests (LLAMA-B, -E, and -F). Unconscious knowledge that may (not) result from the exposure was assessed through the relationship between the accuracy/RT and confidence ratings. The results suggest that LLAMA_D accuracy largely reflects conscious retrieval of previously heard sound sequences. However, an index derived from the LLAMA_D RT measure (coefficient of variance) was associated with an aspect of oral fluency, which is presumably dependent on proceduralization. Several recommendations are proposed to redesign and extend LLAMA_D as a potential aptitude test for proceduralization.

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The relationship between aptitude and working memory: an instructed SLA context

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Sing Chinese and tap Tagalog? Predicting individual differences in musical and phonetic aptitude using language families differing by sound-typology

Sing Chinese and tap Tagalog? Predicting individual differences in musical and phonetic aptitude using language families differing by sound-typology

Probing the Internal Validity of the LLAMA Language Aptitude Tests

Probing the Construct Validity of Llama_d as a Measure of Implicit Learning Aptitude

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