Ram Frost|Noam Siegelman|Alona Narkiss|Liron Afek
What Predicts Successful Literacy Acquisition in a Second Language?
Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Haskins Laboratories|Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language|Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Hebrew University of Jerusalem
study reported examined whether success failure assimilating structure second language predicted general statisticallearning abilities nonlinguistic nature employed visualstatisticallearning vsl task monitoring participants implicit learning transitional probabilities visual shapes pretest revealed performance vsl task correlated abilities related general g factor working memory found average native speakers english accurately picked implicit statistical structure embedded continuous stream shapes better assimilated semitic structure hebrew words languages writing systems characterized idiosyncratic correlations form meaning findings suggest correlations picked process literacy acquisition picked type learning purpose making sense environment