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2016-01-30 11:00
The effect of syntactic processing demands on the text comprehension of Japanese EFL learners
-- Evidence from a lexical decision task -- Keiko Sakakibara, Hirokazu Yokokawa (Kobe Univ.) TL2015-61 |
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Successful text comprehension requires the coordinated operation of several component processes. As various cognitive processes involved in reading comprehension are dependent on the same limited processing resources, a delay or failure of processing at one level may undermine text comprehension as a whole. In order to examine whether Japanese EFL learners' increased demands of syntactic processing interfere with their higher-level text comprehension, texts containing two critical sentences that warrant a causal inference were developed. The second sentence of each critical sentence pair always contains either a temporarily ambiguous reduced relative clause or an unambiguous relative clause. The results of a lexical decision task conducted immediately after the relative clause sentences demonstrated that response time to inference probe word was significantly slower in the ambiguous than in the unambiguous condition. The data of the present study suggests that successful text comprehension depends on efficient syntactic processing. |
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syntactic processing / reduced relative clause / bridging inference / text comprehension / working memory capacity / / / |
Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 115, no. 441, TL2015-61, pp. 35-40, Jan. 2016. |
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TL2015-61 |
Date of Issue |
2016-01-22 (TL) |
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Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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Conference Information |
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TL |
Conference Date |
2016-01-29 - 2016-01-30 |
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Meiji University (Academy Common) |
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Art Thinking / Design Thinking, Thought and Language, etc. |
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The effect of syntactic processing demands on the text comprehension of Japanese EFL learners |
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Evidence from a lexical decision task |
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syntactic processing |
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reduced relative clause |
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bridging inference |
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text comprehension |
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working memory capacity |
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Keiko Sakakibara |
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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 |
2016-01-30 11:00:00 |
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30 minutes |
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TL |
Paper # |
TL2015-61 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.115 |
Number (no) |
no.441 |
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pp.35-40 |
#Pages |
6 |
Date of Issue |
2016-01-22 (TL) |
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