Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern
This study investigates L2 learners’ sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative constructions in English. Experiment 1 focused on measuring EFL learners’ acceptability judgment and real-time processing of sentences containing both types of constructions. Experiment 2, involving ESL learne...
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| description | This study investigates L2 learners’ sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative constructions in English. Experiment 1 focused on measuring EFL learners’ acceptability judgment and real-time processing of sentences containing both types of constructions. Experiment 2, involving ESL learners, aimed to explore the modulating effects of L2 learning contexts and proficiency. Results from Experiment 1 indicated that EFL learners demonstrated diminished sensitivity compared to L1 English speakers, both in acceptability judgment and self-paced reading, with L2 proficiency marginally affecting their performance. In Experiment 2, ESL learners exhibited sentence judgment and processing patterns akin to those of L1 speakers, with L2 proficiency influencing their acceptability judgment and not self-paced reading. These findings support the claim that while L2 learners have a reduced ability to take advantage of statistical preemption, this ability can improve with increased language experience. Crucially, our study extends this theoretical perspective to the domain of real-time sentence processing. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-99e1243c04a645e69ed86a5d22ed99872025-01-16T21:50:31ZengCambridge University PressLanguage and Cognition1866-98081866-98592025-01-011710.1017/langcog.2024.65Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative patternHyunwoo Kim0Haerim Hwang1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0888-590XDepartment of English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of KoreaDepartment of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaThis study investigates L2 learners’ sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative constructions in English. Experiment 1 focused on measuring EFL learners’ acceptability judgment and real-time processing of sentences containing both types of constructions. Experiment 2, involving ESL learners, aimed to explore the modulating effects of L2 learning contexts and proficiency. Results from Experiment 1 indicated that EFL learners demonstrated diminished sensitivity compared to L1 English speakers, both in acceptability judgment and self-paced reading, with L2 proficiency marginally affecting their performance. In Experiment 2, ESL learners exhibited sentence judgment and processing patterns akin to those of L1 speakers, with L2 proficiency influencing their acceptability judgment and not self-paced reading. These findings support the claim that while L2 learners have a reduced ability to take advantage of statistical preemption, this ability can improve with increased language experience. Crucially, our study extends this theoretical perspective to the domain of real-time sentence processing.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980824000656/type/journal_articlenoisy representationsL2 sentence processingverb–construction integrationacceptability judgmentself-paced reading |
| spellingShingle | Hyunwoo Kim Haerim Hwang Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern Language and Cognition noisy representations L2 sentence processing verb–construction integration acceptability judgment self-paced reading |
| title | Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern |
| title_full | Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern |
| title_fullStr | Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern |
| title_short | Learning contexts and proficiency matter: L2 real-time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern |
| title_sort | learning contexts and proficiency matter l2 real time sensitivity to conventional and unconventional dative pattern |
| topic | noisy representations L2 sentence processing verb–construction integration acceptability judgment self-paced reading |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980824000656/type/journal_article |
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