TY - JOUR
T1 - L1 EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION CAN IMPROVE L2 ONLINE and OFFLINE PERFORMANCE
AU - McManus, Kevin
AU - Marsden, Emma
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - This study investigated the effectiveness of providing L1 explicit information (EI) with practice for making more accurate and faster interpretations of L2 French Imparfait (IMP). Two treatments were investigated: (a) L2-only, providing EI about the L2 with L2 interpretation practice, and (b) L2+L1, providing the exact same L2-only treatment and including EI about the L1 (English) with practice interpreting L1 features that are equivalent to the IMP. Fifty L2 French learners were randomly assigned to either L2-only, L2+L1, or a control group. Online (self-paced reading) and offline (context-sentence matching) measures from pretest, posttest, and delayed posttests showed that providing additional L1 EI and practice improved not only offline L2 accuracy, but also the speed of online L2 processing. To our knowledge, this makes original and significant contributions about the nature of EI with practice and the role of the L1 (Tolentino & Tokowicz, 2014), and it extends a recent line of research examining EI effects in online sentence processing (Andringa & Curcic, 2015).
AB - This study investigated the effectiveness of providing L1 explicit information (EI) with practice for making more accurate and faster interpretations of L2 French Imparfait (IMP). Two treatments were investigated: (a) L2-only, providing EI about the L2 with L2 interpretation practice, and (b) L2+L1, providing the exact same L2-only treatment and including EI about the L1 (English) with practice interpreting L1 features that are equivalent to the IMP. Fifty L2 French learners were randomly assigned to either L2-only, L2+L1, or a control group. Online (self-paced reading) and offline (context-sentence matching) measures from pretest, posttest, and delayed posttests showed that providing additional L1 EI and practice improved not only offline L2 accuracy, but also the speed of online L2 processing. To our knowledge, this makes original and significant contributions about the nature of EI with practice and the role of the L1 (Tolentino & Tokowicz, 2014), and it extends a recent line of research examining EI effects in online sentence processing (Andringa & Curcic, 2015).
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U2 - 10.1017/S027226311600022X
DO - 10.1017/S027226311600022X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978519658
SN - 0272-2631
VL - 39
SP - 459
EP - 492
JO - Studies in Second Language Acquisition
JF - Studies in Second Language Acquisition
IS - 3
ER -