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Omaki, Akira; Schulz, Barbara – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
Second-language (L2) sentence processing may differ from processing in a native language in a variety of ways, and it has been argued that one major difference is that L2 learners can only construct shallow representations that lack structural details (e.g., Clahsen & Felser, 2006). The present study challenges this hypothesis by comparing the…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Control Groups, Sentences, Second Language Learning
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Bowles, Melissa A.; Leow, Ronald P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
The present study addresses the reactivity of two types of verbal protocols in SLA research. It expands on the work of Leow and Morgan-Short (2004), who found nonmetalinguistic verbalization during a second-language reading task to be nonreactive for beginning learners' text comprehension, intake, and production of the targeted morphological form.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Metalinguistics, Syntax, Research Methodology
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Papadopoulou, Despina; Clahsen, Harald – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
To contribute to a better understanding of second language (L2) sentence processing, the present study examines how L2 learners parse temporarily ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses. Results are reported from both off-line and on-line experiments with three groups of advanced learners of Greek whose native languages (L1s) were Spanish,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Cues, Greek