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Xiaopeng Zhang; Nan Gong – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study examined how linguistic complexity features contribute to second language (L2) processing effort by analyzing the Dutch English-L2 learners' eye movements from GECO and MECO, two eye-tracking corpora. Processing effort was operationalized as reading rate, mean fixation duration, regression rate, skipping rate, and mean saccade…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistics, Language Processing, English (Second Language)
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Lizarazo Pereira, Diana Marcela; Roberts, Felicia; Tamayo, Ricardo M. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2023
First (L1) and second (L2) language speakers process information differently. The current study explores whether L1 and L2 English language speakers process the emotional connotations of high and low-frequency words using the emotional Stroop task. With this task, we measure the reaction time required to name the color of words with positive,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Word Frequency, Language Processing, English (Second Language)
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Christopher Nicklin; Allie Patterson; Stuart McLean – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Proper nouns constitute a lexical class with special properties and are thus treated differently from other words by second language acquisition researchers. An assumption exists that even low-proficiency learners will find them unproblematic, yet research suggests this assumption might be misplaced. The present study involved two self-paced…
Descriptors: Nouns, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Fluency
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Duygu F. Safak; Holger Hopp – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study investigates whether cross-linguistic differences affect how adult second language (L2) learners use different types of verb subcategorization information for prediction in real-time sentence comprehension. Using visual world eye-tracking, we tested if first language (L1) German and L1 Turkish intermediate-to-advanced learners of L2…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Adults, Second Language Learning, Verbs
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Holger Hopp; Jana Reifegerste; Michael T. Ullman – Language Learning, 2025
Second language (L2) grammar learning is difficult. Two frameworks--the psycholinguistic lexical bottleneck hypothesis and the neurocognitive declarative/procedural model--predict that faster L2 lexical processing should facilitate L2 incidental grammar learning. We tested these predictions in a pretest-posttest syntactic adaptation study of…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Grammar
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Shehr Bano Zaidi – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
This research project is set in a Pakistani undergraduate translation studies class. Pakistan is an ex-British colony where English is taught in a linguistic neo-imperial context. Teachers often endeavor to lessen the palpable struggle of students by introducing activities that put less emphasis on grammatical correctness and more on fostering…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Daniel Sbastian; Gloria Putri Waang – Journal of English Teaching, 2025
Technological advances have made the ability to translate no longer exclusively belong to humans. Today, machine translation has turned into a tool with superior performance to convert text between languages without the need for human intervention. One of the translation research foci is the studies of causative translation, especially from…
Descriptors: Novels, Translation, Indonesian, English (Second Language)
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Quoc, Nguyen Long; Van, Le Ha – Cogent Education, 2023
Vocabulary plays a significant role in the learning process of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students, especially undergraduates who need to read academic materials and listen to specialized lectures in English. However, retaining lexical items is still a challenging task for many EFL learners. The current study seeks to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Constructivism (Learning)
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Evelien Mulder; Marco van de Ven; Eliane Segers; Alexander Krepel; Elise H. de Bree; Peter F. de Jong; Ludo Verhoeven – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Word-to-text integration (WTI) can be challenging for second-language (L2) learners, although it can positively contribute to reading comprehension. The present study examined the role of WTI, after controlling for decoding, vocabulary and morphosyntactic awareness, in predicting English as an L2 reading comprehension development in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Semantics
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Hwang, Heeju – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
The present study investigates how L2 learners adapt their production preferences following immediate and cumulative experience with a syntactic structure when an L2 structure differs from an L1 structure in terms of verb subcategorization frame and argument structure. Korean learners of English described causative events in English in a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Syntax, Native Language, Verbs
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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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Taweesak Emsawas; Tsukasa Kimura; Shintaro Ogura; Hironori Morita; Ergashov Abdullajon; Bernard Grundlehner; Mototsugu Ogura; Masayuki Numao – Discover Education, 2025
Second-language (L2) knowledge of English is an essential communication tool in the contemporary era of globalization in many research and business fields. Among the important tasks in English education is the measurement of student proficiency. While various tests purport to measure proficiency in learning English, repeated preparation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Cognitive Processes
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Sanna Olkkonen; Patrick Snellings; Outi Veivo; Pekka Lintunen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The fluency of second language (L2) speech can be influenced by L2 proficiency, but also by differences in the efficiency of cognitive operations and personal speaking styles. The nature of cognitive fluency is still, however, little understood. Therefore, we studied the cognitive fluency of Finnish advanced students of English (N = 64) to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Speech Communication, Language Fluency
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Nur Basak Karatas; Oya Özemir; Jarrett T. Lovelett; Bora Demir; Kemal Erkol; João Veríssimo; Gülcan Erçetin; Michael T. Ullman – Language Teaching Research, 2025
We investigated whether learning and retaining vocabulary in a second language (L2) can be improved by leveraging a combination of memory enhancement techniques. Specifically, we tested whether combining retrieval practice, spacing, and related manipulations in a 'multidomain' pedagogical approach enhances vocabulary acquisition as compared to a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy
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Lee, Eun-Kyung; Fraundorf, Scott – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
We examined what causes L1-L2 differences in sensitivity to prominence cues in discourse processing. Participants listened to recorded stories in segment-by-segment fashion at their own pace. Each story established a pair of contrasting items, and one item from the pair was rementioned and manipulated to carry either a contrastive or…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Intonation, Korean
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