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Gary A. Troia; Mahmoud Mohamed Emam – Topics in Language Disorders, 2023
In this study of more than 1,000 typical and at-risk elementary Arabic-speaking students in Oman, we explore relationships between pragmatic (and other) language skills, literacy, cognition, and behavior and the degree to which demography impacts performance on associated tasks. We found, in most cases, that females performed better than males,…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Literacy, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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Judit Kormos – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This article revisits the role of cognitive individual differences in creating synergies between second language (L2) writing and second language acquisition research that were proposed by Kormos (2012). It takes stock of the advances in research findings, in the past decade, on the role of working memory and language learning aptitude in L2…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
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Dufau, Stephane; Grainger, Jonathan; Ziegler, Johannes C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
We describe a leaky competing accumulator (LCA) model of the lexical decision task that can be used as a response/decision module for any computational model of word recognition. The LCA model uses evidence for a word, operationalized as some measure of lexical activity, as input to the "YES" decision node. Input to the "NO" decision node is…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Task Analysis, Semantics, Validity
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Grosvald, Michael; Corina, David – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
In this study we explore listeners' sensitivity to vowel to vowel (VV) coarticulation, using both event-related potential (ERP) and behavioral methodologies. The stimuli used were vowels "colored" by the coarticulatory influence of other vowels across one, three or five intervening segments. The paradigm used in the ERP portion of the study was…
Descriptors: Evidence, Auditory Stimuli, Vowels, Cognitive Processes
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Javad Ahmadian, Mohammad; Tavakoli, Mansoor; Vahid Dastjerdi, Hossein – Language Learning Journal, 2015
This study investigates the combined effects of task-based careful online planning and the storyline structure of a task on second language performance (complexity, accuracy and fluency). Sixty intermediate EFL learners were randomly assigned to four groups (n = 15). Participants were asked to perform two tasks with different degrees of storyline…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Scores, Task Analysis
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Joyce, Paul – International Journal of Listening, 2013
This study investigated the application of the speeded lexical decision task to L2 aural processing efficiency. One-hundred and twenty Japanese university students completed an aural word/nonword task. When the variation of lexical decision time (CV) was correlated with reaction time (RT), the results suggested that the single-word recognition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Research, Phonology, Native Speakers
Judy, Tiffany – ProQuest LLC, 2013
While normal child language acquisition results in complete productive and comprehension abilities at a relatively young age, adult language acquisition is more belabored and often results in linguistic abilities that differ from those of native speakers in terms of both productive and comprehension abilities. A major line of research in language…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Bilingualism, Language Research, Grammar
Hama, Mika – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Since the mid-1990s, the link between recasts and L2 development has been extensively tested, and the results from those studies have largely demonstrated that recasts have a positive effect on L2 learning. With this firm support from previous empirical evidence, studies have begun to focus on how recasts assist learning and under what conditions…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, College Students, Japanese, Second Language Instruction
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Garbin, G.; Costa, A.; Sanjuan, A.; Forn, C.; Rodriguez-Pujadas, A.; Ventura, N.; Belloch, V.; Hernandez, M.; Avila, C. – Brain and Language, 2011
The left inferior frontal cortex, the caudate and the anterior cingulate have been proposed as the neural origin of language switching, but most of the studies were conducted in low proficient bilinguals. In the present study, we investigated brain areas involved in language switching in a sample of 19 early, high-proficient Spanish-Catalan…
Descriptors: Neurology, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Spanish, Bilingualism
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Jenks, Christopher Joseph – Modern Language Journal, 2009
Information gap tasks have played a key role in applied linguistics (Pica, 2005). For example, extensive research has been conducted using information gap tasks to elicit second language data. Yet, despite their prominent role in research and pedagogy, there is still much to be investigated with regard to what information gap tasks offer research…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Park, Sujung – Language Teaching Research, 2010
From an information processing perspective, humans have a limited attentional capacity for processing information. Thus, second language (L2) researchers have investigated the role of pretask planning in task performance, finding that planning results in greater fluency and complexity but has mixed effects on accuracy. However, most planning…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Second Language Learning
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Dunabeitia, Jon Andoni; Peream, Manuel; Carreiras, Manuel – Cognition, 2007
When does morphological decomposition occur in visual word recognition? An increasing body of evidence suggests the presence of early morphological processing. The present work investigates this issue via an orthographic similarity manipulation. Three masked priming lexical decision experiments were conducted to examine the transposed-letter…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Word Recognition, Morphology (Languages), Cognitive Processes
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Tyler, Lorraine K.; Moss, Helen E.; Galpin, Adam; Voice, J. Kate – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2002
A cross-modal priming task was used to investigate the role that a word's imageability and its form class play on the time-course with which word meanings are activated. Presents visual target words for lexical decision at different points through the duration of spoken primes. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing
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Bhatarah, Parveen; Ward, Geoff; Tan, Lydia – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
In 3 experiments, participants saw lists of 16 words for free recall with or without a 6-digit immediate serial recall (ISR) task after each word. Free recall was performed under standard visual silent and spoken-aloud conditions (Experiment 1), overt rehearsal conditions (Experiment 2), and fixed rehearsal conditions (Experiment 3). The authors…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Task Analysis, Word Recognition, Short Term Memory
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Robinson, Peter – Applied Linguistics, 2001
Describes a framework for examining the effects of the cognitive complexity of tasks on language production and learner perceptions of task difficulty, and for motivating sequencing decisions in task-based syllabuses. Results of a study of the relationship between task complexity, difficulty and production show that increasing the cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Language Proficiency, Language Research
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