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EVIDENCE FOR THE DECREASING IMPACT OF COGNITIVE ABILITY ON SECOND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AS PROFICIENCY INCREASES

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Author	Serafini, Ellen J. Sanz, Cristina
Copyright Year	2015
Description	This study investigated whether the role of working memory capacity varies over the course of second language (L2) morphosyntactic development. Eighty-seven beginning, intermediate, and advanced university L2 Spanish learners completed two nonverbal tasks measuring executive function (EF) and phonological working memory (PWM) in their native language (English) and two tasks measuring knowledge of ten grammatical structures in Spanish at three points during and after a semester of instruction. Robust relationships between both working memory components, especially PWM, and L2 performance, emerged only for lower level learners, particularly at the start of instruction and 3.5 months later. Findings demonstrate that the facilitative effects of cognitive ability appear to lessen with increasing L2 proficiency and empirically support a developmental perspective of L2 learning.
Related Links	https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0049174454B11D811D1E7C9876878250/S0272263115000327a.pdf/div-class-title-evidence-for-the-decreasing-impact-of-cognitive-ability-on-second-language-development-as-proficiency-increases-div.pdf
Ending Page	646
Page Count	40
Starting Page	607
ISSN	02722631
e-ISSN	14701545
DOI	10.1017/s0272263115000327
Journal	Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	38
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2016-12-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Studies in Second Language Acquisition Language Studies Cognitive Ability
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Linguistics and Language

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