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ERIC Number: EJ1198802
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Dec
Pages: 15
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The Role of Procedural Learning Ability in Automatization of L2 Morphology under Different Learning Schedules: An Exploratory Study
Suzuki, Yuichi
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v40 n4 p923-937 Dec 2018
This paper reports on the reanalysis of Suzuki's (2017) experiment and investigated the extent to which learning schedules influence automatization of second language (L2) morphology. Sixty participants were separated into two groups, which studied morphological rules for oral production under short-spacing (3.3-day intervals) and long-spacing learning conditions (7-day intervals). Their oral production test performance resulted in two measures of automatization: reaction time (RT) as an index of speedup and coefficient of variance (CV) as an index of stability/restructuring. The results showed that, while RT of both groups declined significantly after the training, the 3.3-day group exhibited greater propensity for restructuring than the 7-day group. Furthermore, procedural learning ability measured by the Tower of London task was significantly associated with RT, but not with CV, in the 3.3-day group only. These findings suggest that learning schedules and procedural learning ability influence different stages of automatization of L2 morphological learning.
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Language: English
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