Individual Learner Differences in CALL: The Field Independence/Dependence (FID) Construct

Individual Differences in Adolescents’ Driving Practice during the Learner Stage

L2 Learner Individual Differences: An Integrative and Contextualist Perspective

In the literature of learner characteristics in applied linguistics, learning attitudes, strategies and motivation have received most attention. These learner individual difference variables have usually been seen as background learner variables that modify and personalize the overall trajectory of the language acquisition processes (Dörnyei, 2009). Embedded within a mainly psycholinguistic per...

Individual Learner Differences and Second Language Acquisition: A Review

The level of second language acquisition depends on many factors controlled by nature or shaped by nurture. The present paper studies the role of individual learner differences in second language acquisition (SLA). The individual differences, viz., age, sex, aptitude, motivation, cognitive style, learning strategies, and personality are defined and classified. A detailed review of the studies c...

a critique of "the psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition"

one of the major sources of psychology in the field of teaching english as foreign language in iranian universities is a book named the psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition written by zoltan dornyei. the book was first published in 2005 and was later revised in 2015 and published by routledge. this study thus aims to analyze this book critica...

Learner Modelling for Intelligent CALL

The demand for software for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is increasing considerably. However a drawback of most, if not all, of the currently available CALL software is that it cannot provide very helpful feedback to the learner. The aim of this project was to work towards providing a more adequate and user-oriented interface for CALL. The project focused on the design of an appli...