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An fMRI Validation Study of the Word-Monitoring Task as a Measure of Implicit Knowledge: Exploring the Role of Explicit and Implicit Aptitudes in Behavioral and Neural Processing
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Suzuki, Yuichi; Jeong, Hyeonjeong; Cui, Haining; Okamoto, Kiyo; Kawashima, Ryuta; Sugiura, Motoaki – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
In this study, neural representation of adult second language (L2) speakers' implicit grammatical knowledge was investigated. Advanced L2 speakers of Japanese living in Japan, as well as L1 Japanese speakers, performed a word-monitoring task (proposed as an implicit knowledge test) in the MRI scanner. Behavioral measures were obtained from…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Prediction
The Relationship between a Cognitive Linguistic Approach and the Right-Hemisphere
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Takimoto, Masahiro – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between a metaphor-based approach to teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) and involvement of the brain's right hemisphere. Specifically, it examined learners' understanding of three levels of sureness associated with different expressions in English -- those that are "certain,"…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
How Does Longitudinal Interaction Promote Second Language Speech Learning? Roles of Learner Experience and Proficiency Levels
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Saito, Kazuya; Suzuki, Shungo; Oyama, Tomoko; Akiyama, Yuka – Second Language Research, 2021
This study examined how longitudinal interaction impacts the development of second language (L2) oral proficiency in relation to learners' different experience and proficiency levels. Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) participated in weekly conversation exchanges with native speakers (NSs) in the USA via videoconferencing…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Relationship between L2 Listening Proficiency and L2 Aural Language Processing
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Joyce, Paul – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2019
Listening has been widely characterised as a multifaceted process encompassing a range of linguistic and psycholinguistic components (see Rubin, 1994). However, for learners at different levels of L2 proficiency, there is uncertainty over the relative importance of the various sub-skills. To address this issue, a number of linguistic and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
An Asymmetrical Network Model of the Japanese EFL Learner's Mental Lexicon
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Aotani, Noriko; Sugino, Naoki; Fraser, Simon; Koga, Yuya; Shojima, Kojiro – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The aim of this study is to construct a model of a simple lexical network showing the strength and asymmetry of the connections between vocabulary items in the L2 mental lexicon of Japanese learners. The study focuses on eight nouns and investigates how they are networked, and whether the existing network structure formed by these nouns would be…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics
Number Frequency in L1 Differentially Affects Immediate Serial Recall of Numbers in L2 between Beginning and Intermediate Learners
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Sumioka, Norihiko; Williams, Atsuko; Yamada, Jun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
A list number recall test in English (L2) was administered to both Japanese (L1) students with beginning-level English proficiency who attended evening high school and Japanese college students with intermediate-level English proficiency. The major findings were that, only for the high school group, the small numbers 1 and 2 in middle positions of…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Correlation, Japanese, Bilingualism