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Second language pupils’ anxiety and motivation: a meta-analysis
According to control-value and self-determination theories, pupils with greater second language.(L2) anxiety than others should have less L2...
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LexArabic: A receptive vocabulary size test to estimate Arabic proficiency
Arabic is understudied in second-language research (L2) and lacks rapid and adequate tools for measuring proficiency. Drawing inspiration from...
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The Effect of Syntactic Similarity on Intra-Sentential Switching Costs: Evidence from Chinese-English Bilinguals
In order to better understand the role of syntactic similarity in a code-switched sentence, the current study explored the effect of similar and...
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Production of Arabic Geminates by English Speakers
This study investigates the production of Arabic intervocalic geminate obstruents as produced by American L2 learners of Arabic. The participants of...
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The effect of language proficiency and associative strength on false memory
In two experiments we examined the role of language proficiency and associative strength in the production of false memory. We constructed...
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Morphological Decomposition in L2 Arabic: A Masked Priming Study
Previous findings indicate that the way words are organized in the mental lexicon may differ in Arabic and English. While words are organized...
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Cross-language morphological transfer in similar-script bilinguals
The current study explored cross-language morphological transfer mechanisms using a similar-script morphological translation priming paradigm in...
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Shared translation in second language activates unrelated words in first language
The present study explored bilingual coactivation during natural monolingual sentence-reading comprehension. Native Chinese readers who had learned...
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The cost of changing language context: The language-dependent recall of fictional stories
Language-dependent recall refers to the language-specific retrieval of memories in which the retrieval success depends on the match between the...
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L2 Prediction during complex sentence processing
Recent studies have found that proficient second language (L2) listeners are able to predict upcoming linguistic information to the same extent as...
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Context Effect on L2 Word Recognition: Visual Versus Auditory Modalities
This study tested the effect of constraining sentence context on word recognition time (RT) in the first and second language. Native (L1) and...
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The impact of mental disturbance on second language learning psychology among Chinese undergraduate students: a structural equation modelling analysis
Recent developments in the field of second language acquisition have led to a growing interest in exploring the influential power of domain-general...
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LexMAL: A quick and reliable lexical test for Malay speakers
Objective language proficiency measures have been found to provide better and more consistent estimates of bilinguals’ language processing than...
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Sensitivity to word endings as probabilistic orthographic cues to lexical stress among English as second language learners
Assigning stress to polysyllabic words is a crucial aspect of reading aloud in English. Previous research demonstrated that native English speakers...
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Production benefits on encoding are modulated by language experience: Less experience may help
Several lines of research have shown that performing movements while learning new information aids later retention of that information, compared to...
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Masked Translation Priming Effects for Chinese-English-Japanese Triple Cognates in Lexical Decision Tasks
Previous research has demonstrated cognate translation priming effects in masked priming lexical decision tasks (LDTs) even when a...
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The effect of categorization levels on semantic access: eye-movement evidence from unbalanced Chinese-English bilinguals
The study was to investigate the effect of categorization levels on bilinguals’ semantic access, which provides evidence supporting the...
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The effect of hyperarticulation on speech comprehension under adverse listening conditions
Comprehension assesses a listener’s ability to construe the meaning of an acoustic signal in order to be able to answer questions about its contents,...
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How do Spanish speakers read words? Insights from a crowdsourced lexical decision megastudy
Vocabulary size seems to be affected by multiple factors, including those that belong to the properties of the words themselves and those that relate...
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The Contribution of Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge to Chinese as a Second Language Reading Comprehension: A Path Analysis
This study explored the role of morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension ability of Chinese as a second language...
