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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 |
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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. |
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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) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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TL2012-49 |
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2012-12-08 - 2012-12-08 |
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WASEDA University |
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language and learning, co-creation in a a place |
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Proficiency and Working Memory Effects on the Use of Animacy and Morphosyntactic Information in Comprehending Temporary Ambiguous Sentences by Japanese EFL Learners |
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An Eye-tracking Study |
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animacy |
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morphosyntactic information |
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eye-tracking |
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proficiency |
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working memory capacity |
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Tomoyuki Narumi |
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Kobe University (Kobe Univ.) |
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Hirokazu Yokokawa |
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Kobe University (Kobe Univ.) |
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Date Time |
2012-12-08 17:55:00 |
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30 minutes |
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Paper # |
TL2012-49 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.112 |
Number (no) |
no.339 |
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pp.89-94 |
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6 |
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2012-12-01 (TL) |
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