Japanese EFL Learners' Processing in English Relativization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22299491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Akihiro Ito (0000-0001-8549-4350, Aichi Gakuin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 133-134 |
| Pages | 325-345 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-0829 • E-ISSN: 1783-1490 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/itl.133-134.07ito |
| OpenAlex | W2265650365 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of branching type (Factor 1) and grammatical function of noun phrase (NP) (factor 2) of English relative clauses on interlanguage performance among Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The sentence combining test was administered to Japanese learners of English. Results indicated that both of the two factors significantly determine the difficulty of English relative clauses. Left-branching (center-embedded) relative clauses have a tendency to be more difficult than right-branching ones. Moreover, it is implied that subject-relative clauses are answered more accurately than object-relative clauses. These findings suggested that branching type and grammatical function of the noun phrase are complimentary determine the difficulty level of English relative clauses. The results implied the validity of KAWAUCHl's (1988) hypothesis that the difficulty order of relative clauses is as follows : OS > 00 > SS > SO. The results are also discussed with the recent theoretical frameworks in psycholinguistic research. The limitation of the present investigation and the directions of the further research are also discussed
Branching (polymer chemistry) · Dependent clause · Interlanguage · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Phrase · Relative clause · Sentence · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning
The Study of Second Language Acquisition
Essentials of educational measurement
The role of parallel function in the acquisition of relative clauses in English
Japanese EFL Learners' Sensitivity to Configurational Distinction in English Relativization
Tests as a Second Language Research Method
The Language of Children and Adolescents
Psycholinguistics
Strategies in the Comprehension of Relative Clauses
An analysis of relative clauses in the Lancaster/IBM spoken English corpus
An alternative assessment of children's comprehension of relative clauses
Learnability and Cognition
Language Transfer and Universal Grammatical Relations
Is Implicational Generalization Unidirectional and Maximal? Evidence from Relativization Instruction in a Second Language
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |