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The Effects of Mode and Task Complexity on Second Language Production
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Vasylets, Olena; Gilabert, Roger; Manchón, Rosa M. – Language Learning, 2017
Taking a psycholinguistic orientation within task-based language teaching scholarship, this study investigated the effects of mode (oral vs. written) and task complexity on second language (L2) performance. The participants were 78 Catalan/Spanish learners of English as a foreign language. Half of the participants performed the simple and complex…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Roles of First Language and Proficiency in L2 Processing of Spanish Clitics: Global Effects
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Seibert Hanson, Aroline E.; Carlson, Matthew T. – Language Learning, 2014
We assessed the roles of first language (L1) and second language (L2) proficiency in the processing of preverbal clitics in L2 Spanish by considering the predictions of four processing theories--the Input Processing Theory, the Unified Competition Model, the Amalgamation Model, and the Associative-Cognitive CREED. We compared the performance of L1…
Descriptors: Language Role, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Spanish
Catalan Children's Sensitivity to the Discourse Constraints Imposed by Different Kinds of Question
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Prat-Sala, Merce; Hahn, Ulrike – Language Learning, 2007
In an investigation of discourse sensitivity, Catalan-speaking children aged 4 to 8 years were asked two different questions in a picture description task. One was a wide-focus question ("What is happening?"); the other was a narrow-focus question ("What is happening to 'the patient'?"). Children of all age groups displayed sensitivity to the…
Descriptors: Word Order, Child Language, Questioning Techniques, Uncommonly Taught Languages