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The Multidimensionality of Second Language Oral Fluency: Interfacing Cognitive Fluency and Utterance Fluency
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Suzuki, Shungo; Kormos, Judit – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The current study examined the extent to which cognitive fluency (CF) contributes to utterance fluency (UF) at the level of constructs. A total of 128 Japanese-speaking learners of English completed four speaking tasks--argumentative task, picture narrative task, reading-to-speaking task, and reading-while-listening-to-speaking task--and a battery…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Task Analysis
Contextual Word Learning during Reading in a Second Language: An Eye-Movement Study
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Elgort, Irina; Brysbaert, Marc; Stevens, Michaël; Van Assche, Eva – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
Reading affords opportunities for L2 vocabulary acquisition. Empirical research into the pace and trajectory of this acquisition has both theoretical and applied value. Charting the development of different aspects of word knowledge can verify and inform theoretical frameworks of word learning and reading comprehension. It can also inform…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary, Eye Movements, English (Second Language)
Validating Grammaticality Judgment Tests: Evidence from Two New Psycholinguistic Measures
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Vafaee, Payman; Suzuki, Yuichi; Kachisnke, Ilina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Several previous factor-analytic studies on the construct validity of grammaticality judgment tests (GJTs) concluded that untimed GJTs measure explicit knowledge (EK) and timed GJTs measure implicit knowledge (IK) (Bowles, 2011; R. Ellis, 2005; R. Ellis & Loewen, 2007). It has also been shown that, irrespective of the time condition chosen,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Knowledge Level, Factor Analysis
Number Attraction Effects in Near-Native Spanish Sentence Comprehension
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Jegerski, Jill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
Grammatical agreement phenomena such as verbal number have long been of fundamental interest in the study of second language (L2) acquisition. Previous research from the perspective of sentence processing has documented nativelike behavior among nonnative participants but has also relied almost exclusively on grammar violation paradigms. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Verbs
Production and Comprehension in Processability Theory: A Self-Paced Reading Study
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Spinner, Patti; Jung, Sehoon – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine whether processability theory (PT; Pienemann, 1998, 2005) accounts for the emergence of grammatical forms and structures in comprehension. Sixty-one learners of English participated in oral interviews that elicited a variety of structures relevant to PT. Learners were divided into two groups: those who…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Processing of the Reduced Relative Clause versus Main Verb Ambiguity in L2 Learners at Different Proficiency Levels
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Rah, Anne; Adone, Dany – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
This article presents new evidence from offline and online processing of garden-path sentences that are ambiguous between reduced relative clause resolution and main verb resolution. The participants of this study are intermediate and advanced German learners of English who have learned the language in a nonimmersed context. The results show that…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Verbs, Figurative Language