Implicit Causality and Consequentiality and Effect of Pronoun Resolution/Quality of Use among EFL Learners

Abstract

Implicit causality (IC) and Implicit Consequentiality (IR) are identified as universal attributes or elements that affect pronoun use because they arise from verb or adverb biases. Grounding this study was the notion that IC and IR influence noun resolution among EFL learners. Implicit Causality Biases has an effect on how EFL learners make pronoun resolution. The study seeks to test if implicit causality is also linked to co-reference bias, hence influencing pronoun resolution among EFL learners. This was a quantitative study through Survey Monkey questionnaires, targeting 30 respondents (IC=n, 15 and IR= N, 15).The findings indicated that both IC and IR biases affected quality of pronoun resolution among EFL learners.