Age and Aural Comprehension Achievement in Francophone Adults Learning English  

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Seright, Linda

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: TESOL Quarterly (Full Text; vol 1-16 ada di JSTOR) vol. 19 no. 3 (Sep. 1985), page 455-473.
Fulltext: vol 19 no.3 pp.455-473.pdf (2.29MB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/TES/19 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The study reported in this article examined the relationship between age and second language (L2) achievement of adults in an instructional setting. Older {aged 25 to 41) and younger (aged 17 to 24) I learners were compared with respect to short-term development in aural comprehension. The adult subjects, native speakers of Quebec French with limited L2 proficiency, were military personnel learning English in an intensive program. A pretest/post-test procedure was used to assess gains made by subjects in listening and to compare groups. In analyzing gains, two matched-pair samples were used, each comprised of 18 pairs of older and younger subjects matched on five variables: informal exposure, pretest score, nonverbal IQ, education, and previous ESL instruction. In both samples, the mean gain was significantly greater for younger subjects than for older subjects. In addition, stepwise regression analysis showed age, along with pretest score, to be an important predictor of post-test (achievement) score; other variables were not significant. The study suggests that in adult L2 learners, rate of achievement in aural comprehension decreases with increasing age. Implications of this finding for adult L2 instruction are discussed.

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