Fatores de experiência linguística associados à proficiência autoavaliada por usuários de inglês como língua adicional

Researchers suggest that learning additional languages and the experience of using them have an important role in the development of the linguistic competence of an individual (MARIAN,; BLUMENFELD, & KAUSHANSKAYA, 2007). The goal of this study was to investigate which language experience factors are associated with the self-reported proficiency of additional language users. For this purpose, we correlated language experience variables of 535 Brazilian participants, speakers of English as an additional language, with their self-reported proficiency on the Questionario de Experiencia e Proficiencia Linguistica (QuExPLi). Results suggest that the factors related to age, time of immersion, and current use of the language are associated to participants’ self-reported proficiency.