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How native is near-native? The issue of ultimate attainment in adult second language acquisition

Overview of attention for article published in Second Language Research, July 1996
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  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#37 of 283)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (70th percentile)

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Article details
Title
How native is near-native? The issue of ultimate attainment in adult second language acquisition
Published in
Second Language Research, July 1996
DOI 10.1177/026765839601200301
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
Japan 2 1%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Iceland 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 178 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 40 21%
Student > Master 37 19%
Student > Bachelor 19 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 15 8%
Researcher 13 7%
Other 35 18%
Unknown 34 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 97 50%
Psychology 22 11%
Social Sciences 13 7%
Arts and Humanities 9 5%
Neuroscience 9 5%
Other 9 5%
Unknown 34 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 October 2026.
All research outputs
#7,452,589
of 29,159,527 outputs
Outputs from Second Language Research
#37
of 283 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,520
of 32,833 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Second Language Research
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,159,527 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 283 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 1 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them