2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Psycholinguistic experiments on sentence production in picture description tasks in L2 English and its skill development
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23520680
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Oita University |
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Principal Investigator |
YANAI Tomohiko 大分大学, 教育福祉科学部, 教授 (60136025)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 言語産出 / 文のプラニング / 絵描写課題 / 心理言語学 / 英語教育 |
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| Research Abstract |
The present study examined how far ahead L2 learners plan an English sentence before they begin to describe a picture. The results of the present psycholinguistic experiments show that learners' scope of sentence planning varied according to the type of the subject phrase containing double nouns: coordinatd noun phrase ("A and B are ...") and prepositional noun phrase ("A above B is ..."). Through these experiments the role of 'cognitive load' in sentence planning was recognized. It is suggested that varying the cognitive load may change the ease of sentence production in a second language.
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