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The topic of the workshop from which this volume comes, “Individual Differences
in Second Language Learning,” is timely and important for both practical
and theoretical reasons. The practical reasons are obvious: While many people
have some knowledge of a second or further language, there is enormous
variability in how well they know these languages. Much of this variability is,
of course, likely to be due to differences in the time spent studying or being
immersed in the language, but even in similar learning environments learners
differ greatly in how quickly they pick up a language and in their ultimate level
of proficiency.
