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Presentation 2012-12-08 17:55
Proficiency and Working Memory Effects on the Use of Animacy and Morphosyntactic Information in Comprehending Temporary Ambiguous Sentences by Japanese EFL Learners -- An Eye-tracking Study --
Tomoyuki Narumi, Hirokazu Yokokawa (Kobe Univ.) TL2012-49
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) In this study, an eye-tracking experiment was conducted to investigate how Japanese EFL learners with intermediate proficiency process temporary ambiguous sentences from the perspective of their use of semantic and morphosyntactic information. The effects of the improvement of proficiency within the intermediate group and the increase of working memory capacity were also considered. The results revealed that Japanese EFL learners can use the information of animacy to facilitate sentence processing as their proficiency improves. However, they do not always use the morphosyntactic information effectively for sentence processing and there were few effects of proficiency and working memory capacity for reading sentences containing reduced relative clauses. These results indicate that Japanese EFL learners rely on the semantic and other information for sentence processing and that the use of the syntactic information is absent.
Keyword (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) animacy / morphosyntactic information / eye-tracking / proficiency / working memory capacity / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 112, no. 339, TL2012-49, pp. 89-94, Dec. 2012.
Paper # TL2012-49 
Date of Issue 2012-12-01 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2012-12-08 - 2012-12-08 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) WASEDA University 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) language and learning, co-creation in a a place 
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Conference Code 2012-12-TL 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Proficiency and Working Memory Effects on the Use of Animacy and Morphosyntactic Information in Comprehending Temporary Ambiguous Sentences by Japanese EFL Learners 
Sub Title (in English) An Eye-tracking Study 
Keyword(1) animacy  
Keyword(2) morphosyntactic information  
Keyword(3) eye-tracking  
Keyword(4) proficiency  
Keyword(5) working memory capacity  
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1st Author's Name Tomoyuki Narumi  
1st Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Hirokazu Yokokawa  
2nd Author's Affiliation Kobe University (Kobe Univ.)
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Date Time 2012-12-08 17:55:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2012-49 
Volume (vol) vol.112 
Number (no) no.339 
Page pp.89-94 
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Date of Issue 2012-12-01 (TL) 


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