Education Quarterly Reviews
ISSN 2621-5799
Published: 14 November 2018
The Impact of Individual Differences in Cognition on L2 Learners’ Reading Outcomes
Xiaorui Huang
Chongqing University of Education, China
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10.31014/aior.1993.01.01.13
Abstract
There are a large number of factors contributing to the reading outcome diversity. Individual differences in cognition are possibly regarded as one of the most significant causes and have a predominated impact on the reading development. Individual differences, like meta-cognition and working memory, are found to have a positive correlation with L2 learners' reading outcome variety and have a profound influence on their ultimate achievement in reading to some extent.
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