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Ferguson, Heather J.; Jayes, Lewis T. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Previous research has established that readers' eye movements are sensitive to the difficulty with which a word is processed. One important factor that influences processing is the fit of a word within the wider context, including its plausibility. Here we explore the influence of plausibility in counterfactual language processing. Counterfactuals…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Word Processing, Context Effect, Native Speakers
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Çokal, Derya; Sturt, Patrick – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
This article reports one eye-tracking and one sentence-completion experiment, examining the antecedent preferences for plural anaphora "they" and demonstrative "these." Our results show that the antecedent-grouping preference depends on type of referring expressions: specifically, the preference for "they" is to refer…
Descriptors: Preferences, Eye Movements, Sentence Structure, Educational Experiments
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Çokal, Derya; Sturt, Patrick; Ferreira, Fernanda – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2018
Two experiments explored the hypothesis that anaphors and demonstratives signal different procedural instructions: Whereas the anaphor "it" brings a concrete entity into a reader's focus, the demonstrative "this" directs the focus to a predicate proposition in a discourse representation. The findings from an online eye-tracking…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages), Reading Processes
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Solikhah, Imroatus – Dinamika Ilmu, 2017
This experimental research examines: (1) significant differences of corrections on grammar, sentence variety and developing details on the quality of the essay by Indonesian learners; and (2) different effect of corrections on grammar, sentence variety, and developing details on the quality of the essay. Treatments for each were served as follows:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Essays, Writing Difficulties
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Luo, Canhuang; Chen, Wei; Zhang, Ye – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
In studies of visual object recognition, strong inversion effects accompany the acquisition of expertise and imply the involvement of configural processing. Chinese literacy results in sensitivity to the orthography of Chinese characters. While there is some evidence that this orthographic sensitivity results in an inversion effect, and thus…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Processing, Orthographic Symbols, Familiarity
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Lowder, Matthew W.; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Two eye-tracking experiments examined the effects of sentence structure on the processing of complement coercion, in which an event-selecting verb combines with a complement that represents an entity (e.g., "began the memo"). Previous work has demonstrated that these expressions impose a processing cost, which has been attributed to the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Experiments, Sentence Structure, Verbs
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Yi, Wei; Lu, Shiyi; Ma, Guojie – Second Language Research, 2017
Frequency and contingency are two primary statistical factors that drive the acquisition and processing of language. This study explores the role of phrasal frequency and contingency (the co-occurrence probability/statistical association of the constituent words in multiword sequences) during online processing of multiword sequences. Meanwhile, it…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Chinese
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Autry, Kevin S.; Levine, William H. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2014
Negated words take longer to recognize than non-negated words following sentences with negation, suggesting that negated concepts are less active. The present experiments tested the possibility that this reduced activation would not persist beyond immediate testing. Experiment 1 used a probe task and materials similar to those used in previous…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Morphemes, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
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Ningling, Wei – English Language Teaching, 2015
Prominence, as an important dimension of cognitive construal, refers to the capacity to evoke a certain substructure as the focus of attention, which can be materialized in a variety of semantic and grammatical expressions (Langacker, 1987). Subject of a sentence (Zhang, 2011) and specific sentence structures (Lin, 2013) can bring a substructure…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, College Students, Asians
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Hagiwara, Akiko – Language Teaching Research, 2015
Processing morphemic elements is one of the most difficult parts of second language acquisition (DeKeyser, 2005; Larsen-Freeman, 2010). This difficulty gains prominence when second language (L2) learners must perform under time pressure, and difficulties arise in using grammatical knowledge. To solve the problem, the current study used the tenets…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Japanese, Multimedia Materials
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Kamimura, Taeko – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2016
A study was conducted to examine the differences in narrative essays produced by skilled and unskilled EFL student writers. Twenty-six Japanese university students participated in the study. They were told to write a narrative story based on six-frame pictures. The students were classified into two groups, skilled and unskilled, according to the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, College Students
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Jiang, Lin; Huang, Kang – Higher Education Studies, 2015
Structural priming refers to the tendency of speakers to reuse the same structural pattern as one that was previously encountered (Bock, 1986). The effectiveness of structural priming has been an issue of much discussion in the field of second language acquisition over decades. This study aims at investigating the role of structural priming in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Asians, Role
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Savicki, Victor; Price, Michele V. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Reflective thinking is an important feature of study-abroad learning, yet research on reflection in this context is sparse. The current study examined student reflection on 3 content areas (Academic Expectations, Cultural Expectations, and Psychological Issues) at 3 times (before, during, and after study abroad). A content analysis approach with…
Descriptors: College Students, Reflection, Study Abroad, Expectation
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Bhooth, Abdullah Mohammad; Azman, Hazita; Ismail, Kemboja – TESOL Journal, 2015
This article investigates the reading practices of 45 EFL Yemeni students using the "learning by design" framework. The framework organizes the teaching and learning of literacy into four processes: experiencing, conceptualising, analysing, and applying. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to collect data on a sample of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
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Lijewska, Agnieszka; Chmiel, Agnieszka – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
Conference interpreters form a special case of language users because the simultaneous interpretation practice requires very specific lexical processing. Word comprehension and production in respective languages is performed under strict time constraints and requires constant activation of the involved languages. The present experiment aimed at…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Processing, Second Languages, Translation
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