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Language Awareness Volume 30, 2021 - Issue 2
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Multilingual learners’ perceptions of cross-linguistic distances: a proposal for a visual psychotypological measure

Christina Nelsona English Department, University of Münster, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Iga Krzysikb Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, PolandView further author information
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Halina Lewandowskab Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, PolandView further author information
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Magdalena Wrembelb Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, PolandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7804-3199View further author information
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Pages 176-194 | Received 09 Nov 2018, Accepted 24 Feb 2021, Published online: 01 Apr 2021

Figures & data

Table 1. Phonological similarity between English, German and Polish selected features.

Figure 1. Example of placement of circles as a participant may have done it (left) and example of measuring the raw distance in mm, in this case from German to all other languages (right).

Figure 1. Example of placement of circles as a participant may have done it (left) and example of measuring the raw distance in mm, in this case from German to all other languages (right).

Table 2. Participants’ language learning profiles.

Table 3. Perceived language distance normalized values (both groups combined).

Figure 2. Perceived distance between language pairs (NV).

Figure 2. Perceived distance between language pairs (NV).

Table 4. Perceived language distance normalized values per group.

Table 5. Model output for RV scores.

Table 6. Perceived language distance questionnaire items per group.

Table 7. Two-tailed t-test of group effect for language distance questionnaire items.

Table 8. Pearson correlations of questionnaire and ViLDiM data, groups treated jointly; *p < 0.05.

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