Language and nonlanguage factors in foreign language learning: evidence for the learning condition hypothesis

Abstract The question of why native and foreign languages are learned with a large performance gap has prompted language researchers to hypothesize that they are subserved by fundamentally different mechanisms. However, this hypothesis may not have taken into account that these languages can be lear...

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Main Authors: Xin Kang, Stephen Matthews, Virginia Yip, Patrick C. M. Wong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:npj Science of Learning
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00104-9