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Download full textMirzaei, Maryam Sadat; Meshgi, Kourosh – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper investigates the effect of sentence complexity, specifically lexical and syntactic surprisal, on L2 listening difficulty. Psycholinguistic studies revealed that surprisal cases correlate with textual comprehension difficulty. Based on surprisal theory, these cases are less probable or expected, considering the precedent context, thus…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Difficulty Level, Listening Skills
