The Effects of Context on the Strategies in Sentence Processing by Japanese Learners of English

日本人英語学習者の文解析ストラテジーに対する文脈の効果

Yoshida Tatsuhiro

中国地区英語教育学会研究紀要

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The purpose of the present study is to investigate whether context affects the learner's on-line sentence processing. Yoshida (in press) found that Japanese advanced learners of English processed a sentence based on lexical forms retrieved from verbs. The results of the experiment showed that transitivity and the type of the complement structures affected the learner's on-line processing. When the sentence structure of the incoming material was not consistent with the lexical form the learner expected to appear, then, they needed to reanalyze the sentence and spent longer time. In the present study context which was relevant to the experimental sentence was presented, and whether contextual information affects learner's on-line sentence processing was investigated. However, the result showed no effect of the context was found. The possible factors which accounted for this result were discussed.

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中国地区英語教育学会

本論文の著作権は中国地区英語教育学会に属する

[ISSN] 0385-1192

[NCID] AN00145179