| Presentation | 2016-01-30 The effect of syntactic processing demands on the text comprehension of Japanese EFL learners Keiko Sakakibara, Hirokazu Yokokawa, |
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| Abstract(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Abstract(in English) | 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. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | syntactic processing / reduced relative clause / bridging inference / text comprehension / working memory capacity |
| Paper # | TL2015-61 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-01-22 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2016/1/29(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Meiji University (Academy Common) |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Art Thinking / Design Thinking, Thought and Language, etc. |
| Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) |
| Vice Chair | Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics) / Masami Suzuki(KDDI R&D Labs.) |
| Secretary | Chiaki Kubomura(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Masami Suzuki(Kyorin Univ.) |
| Assistant | Eiji Tomida(Ehime Univ.) / Yasushi Tsubota(Kyoto Univ.) |
| Paper Information | |
| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | The effect of syntactic processing demands on the text comprehension of Japanese EFL learners |
| Sub Title (in English) | Evidence from a lexical decision task |
| Keyword(1) | syntactic processing |
| Keyword(2) | reduced relative clause |
| Keyword(3) | bridging inference |
| Keyword(4) | text comprehension |
| Keyword(5) | working memory capacity |
| 1st Author's Name | Keiko Sakakibara |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Kobe University(Kobe Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Hirokazu Yokokawa |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Kobe University(Kobe Univ.) |
| Date | 2016-01-30 |
| Paper # | TL2015-61 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.115 |
| Number (no) | TL-441 |
| Page | pp.pp.35-40(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2016-01-22 (TL) |