Individual Differences in Second Language Learning: Introduction
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Individual Differences in Second Language Learning: Introduction
The topic of the workshop from which this volume comes, “Individual Differences in Second Language Learning,” is timely and important for both practical and theoretical reasons. The practical reasons are obvious: While many people have some knowledge of a second or further language, there is enormous variability in how well they know these languages. Much of this variability is, of course, like...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language Learning
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0023-8333
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00703.x