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Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs; Suhad Sonbul; Ahmed Masrai – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The availability of a first language translation equivalent (i.e., congruency) has repeatedly been shown to influence second-language collocation processing in decontextualized tasks. However, no study to date has examined how L2 speakers process congruent/incongruent collocations on-line in a real-world context. The present study aimed to fill…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Translation
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Al-Deaibes, Mutasim; Jarrah, Marwan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This study investigates the production of Arabic intervocalic geminate obstruents as produced by American L2 learners of Arabic. The participants of the study were 24 Arabic learners (12 advanced, 12 beginners) at North Georgia University and 12 native speakers of Jordanian Arabic (the control group). An examination of the results reveals that…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Learning, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Danning Sun; Zihan Chen; Shanhua Zhu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2025
This study examines the referential context effect on second-language relative clause ambiguity resolution by proficient L1 Chinese learners who learn English as a foreign language (EFL) and investigates whether the ambiguity resolution process is constrained by individuals' working memory capacity (WMC). It presents a self-paced reading study and…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Context Effect, Ambiguity (Semantics), Form Classes (Languages)
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Ghanbaran, Samira; Ketabi, Saeed; Shahnazari, Mohammadtaghi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The merits of the application of flow theory in foreign language teaching have been demonstrated in recent research. This experimental study was aimed at investigating the role of task type and modality in the perception of flow experience by learners as they are engaged in communication tasks. The participants were 78 non-English major university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Nonmajors
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Zijin Yao; Ruofan Li; Yuyun Hartanto – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
While previous research has demonstrated the beneficial role of pop music in foreign language learning, there is a lack of studies exploring the potential impact of Chinese folk songs on Mandarin language acquisition. This study aimed to investigate whether a curriculum based on Chinese folk songs enhances the outcomes of Mandarin Chinese learning…
Descriptors: Chinese, Folk Culture, Singing, Second Language Learning
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Liyuan, Huang – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This research aimed to determine the impact of the effectiveness in the application of an independent method of teaching students on their progress in achieving a certain level of Japanese. The study used key methods that implied the experimental involvement of 60 3rd- and 4th-year American and Chinese students with the N3 and N2 levels of…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Personal Autonomy, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning
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Su Fang; Xue-yi Huang; Xin Chang – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
In order to better understand the role of syntactic similarity in a code-switched sentence, the current study explored the effect of similar and different syntactic structures on Chinese-English bilinguals' intra-sentential switching costs. L2 proficiency and switching directions as factors that potentially intervene in bilingual performance were…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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AlRawi, Maather; AlShurafa, Nuha; Elyas, Tariq – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The paper describes Saudi English morphosyntactic and lexical features that are widely practiced among educated Saudis, who completed at least nine years of English language study. The occurrence of the morphosyntactic features is argued to be affected by the speakers' contact to the native English. Those who are in direct contact with Standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Syntax
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Kim, Tae-Young; Kim, Youngmi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This exploratory study investigates the structural relationship between second language (L2) learning motivation, resilience, motivated behavior, and L2 proficiency among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in South Korea. The research questions are as follows: (1) What are the constructs of resilience and L2 learning motivation among L2…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation
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Blanka Klimova; Cecília de Paula Nascimento e Silva – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the best approaches to teaching a foreign language to older people to help them achieve the desired results and explore their benefits. This review strictly follows the PRISMA methodology for systematic reviews and meta-analyses to identify the core experimental studies that deal with the topic of…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Aging (Individuals), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Qian, Leyi; Li, Kangxi; Cheng, Yan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The aim of this study is to shed light on the learnability regarding usages of three English articles ("a," "the" and zero) among Chinese EFL learners. To this end, three tasks were administered in a pool of 107 participants to examine the extent to which learners can accurately use articles across different semantic contexts…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Variation, Form Classes (Languages), Language Usage
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Krasnoshchekova, Sofia; Kashleva, Kseniia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
Narrative competence is an essential part of language proficiency. Research of narrative competence has both a theoretical and empirical value. Our study aims to assess narrative competence of adult L2 Russian learners and to investigate the relationship between their narrative competence and their language proficiency. For assessment, we used the…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Narration
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Foote, Rebecca; Qasem, Mousa; Trentman, Emma – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
Previous findings indicate that the way words are organized in the mental lexicon may differ in Arabic and English. While words are organized according to both orthographic and morphological form similarity in English, they are organized primarily according to morphological form similarity in Semitic languages (Frost et al. in J Exp Psychol Learn…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Psycholinguistics
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Jiang, Fan; Kennison, Shelia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The current study investigates the influence of L2 English learners' belief about their interlocutor's English proficiency on phonetic accommodation and explores whether interaction-induced phonetic convergence could improve L2 English learners' vowel pronunciation. Results from two experiments show that when the subjects believed that their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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Nowbakht, Mohammad – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
This study is designed to explore the role of second language (L2) English learners' working memory (WM), language proficiency, and age in the processing and comprehension of English anaphoric sentences. To this end, 40 EFL learners participated in the study. The proficiency levels of the participants varied from elementary to high-intermediate,…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Proficiency, Age, English (Second Language)
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