| Project/Area Number |
26580109
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | University of Shizuoka (2015)
Toyama Prefectural University (2014) |
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Principal Investigator |
SUDA Koji 静岡県立大学, 国際関係学部, 准教授 (60390390)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | 第二言語習得 / 文処理 / 意味役割 / 文法役割 / 習熟度 / 記憶容量 / 言語知識 / 有生性 / 事象関連電位 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we conducted three sentence processing experiments including event related potentials (ERPs), and investigated how Japanese learners of English (JLEs) with different proficiency levels and working memory capacities made use of lexical and syntactic information during sentence comprehension. The results showed that JLEs at the lower proficiency tended to rely on lexical information such as animacy, but they reached a stage of using structural information as the proficiency level developed. Moreover, it was observed that there was a positive effect of working memory in L2 parsing, and JLEs with the large working memory capacity read a crucial verb area faster than those with the small working memory capacity.
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