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Does studying Latin in secondary education predict study achievement in academic higher education?

Cathy Hauspie (UGent) , Stijn Schelfhout (UGent) , Nicolas Dirix (UGent) , Lot Fonteyne (UGent) , Arnaud Szmalec (UGent) , Mark Janse (UGent) , Alexandra Vereeck (UGent) and Wouter Duyck (UGent)
(2024) LANGUAGE LEARNING. 74(4). p.853-883
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Studying Latin in secondary education is still widespread in Europe and believed to result in cognitive benefits, even beyond the linguistic domain. The present study set out to explore the relation between studying Latin in secondary education and later academic achievement in higher education (N = 1,898). First, we demonstrated that Latin students exhibit increased levels of study achievement in higher education, and particularly in non-STEM study programs. Second, we explored where the instruction of Latin was a significant predictor in models of academic achievement, explaining incremental variance over 21 other cognitive, attitudinal, and demographic factors. Latin instruction was included as a factor in the prediction models in 42% of the (mainly non-STEM) programs, but the incremental predictive validity was only substantial in the linguistic programs. This study highlights how the variable ‘instruction of Latin’ can be a valuable predictor of academic achievement, in other (un)related study fields.
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higher education, academic achievement, classical languages, Latin

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Hauspie, Cathy, et al. “Does Studying Latin in Secondary Education Predict Study Achievement in Academic Higher Education?” LANGUAGE LEARNING, vol. 74, no. 4, 2024, pp. 853–83, doi:10.1111/lang.12639.
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Hauspie, C., Schelfhout, S., Dirix, N., Fonteyne, L., Szmalec, A., Janse, M., … Duyck, W. (2024). Does studying Latin in secondary education predict study achievement in academic higher education? LANGUAGE LEARNING, 74(4), 853–883. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12639
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Hauspie, Cathy, Stijn Schelfhout, Nicolas Dirix, Lot Fonteyne, Arnaud Szmalec, Mark Janse, Alexandra Vereeck, and Wouter Duyck. 2024. “Does Studying Latin in Secondary Education Predict Study Achievement in Academic Higher Education?” LANGUAGE LEARNING 74 (4): 853–83. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12639.
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Hauspie, Cathy, Stijn Schelfhout, Nicolas Dirix, Lot Fonteyne, Arnaud Szmalec, Mark Janse, Alexandra Vereeck, and Wouter Duyck. 2024. “Does Studying Latin in Secondary Education Predict Study Achievement in Academic Higher Education?” LANGUAGE LEARNING 74 (4): 853–883. doi:10.1111/lang.12639.
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Hauspie C, Schelfhout S, Dirix N, Fonteyne L, Szmalec A, Janse M, et al. Does studying Latin in secondary education predict study achievement in academic higher education? LANGUAGE LEARNING. 2024;74(4):853–83.
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C. Hauspie et al., “Does studying Latin in secondary education predict study achievement in academic higher education?,” LANGUAGE LEARNING, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 853–883, 2024.
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