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Jimin Kahng – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
The development of L2 utterance fluency has been extensively researched, whereas that of cognitive fluency has rarely been examined. This study investigated the longitudinal development of L2 utterance and cognitive fluency and their relationship. Thirty-one Chinese learners of English completed speaking tasks and a set of tasks for cognitive…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Fluency, Syntax, Language Processing
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Xiao, Feng; Taguchi, Naoko; Li, Shuai – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
This study is the first to examine contributions of proficiency subskills to pragmatic development. We used the latent growth curve modeling to reveal the causal relationships between proficiency subskills and pragmatic competence in 109 American learners of Chinese across two data points over three months abroad in China. Proficiency was measured…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Study Abroad, Pragmatics, Correlation