Priming Research

Trofimovich, Pavel; McDonough, Kim

doi:10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0953

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0953

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Priming Research

Pavel Trofimovich¹,

Kim McDonough²

Abstract: Priming methods are one of the predominant experimental paradigms employed to study cognitive aspects of language learning and use. Priming methods originated in psycholinguistics, but have become increasingly common in applied linguistics over the past two decades.

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Some Effects of Explicit Grammar Instruction and Syntactic Priming on Students’ Written Language Production

Rahman

Asfah

2018

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Abstract. Structural or syntactic priming is a phenomenon in which prior exposure to specific language structures either facilitates or interferes with a learner's subsequent language production [1]. Exposure to English structures through explicit instruction is reported to have inconclusive results. [2] reported that explicit and implicit grammar instruction ends up with automatization. This study reexamines the effect of syntactic priming and explicit grammar instruction on students' writing. Specific grammatical features frequently appeared on TOEFL (Written Expression Section) test were intensively practiced and then the students took a test whose items were specifically collected from TOEFL practice tests. Finally, the students were assigned to write a short essay. Sentences with similar structures which the students had been exposed to were extracted from the students' essays. Out of 40 test items, only 59.86% in average could be answered correctly, and all of the grammatical features to which the students were previously exposed were contained in their essays. However, in average only eight out of 18 sentences were grammatically constructed. It can be concluded that although priming method with explicit instruction leads the students to use similar syntactic features in their writing, it seems to have little impact on students' grammatical knowledge for immediate use in written language production.

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Some Effects of Explicit Grammar Instruction and Syntactic Priming on Students’ Written Language Production

Rahman

Asfah

2018

SHS Web Conf.

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Priming Research

Abstract: Priming methods are one of the predominant experimental paradigms employed to study cognitive aspects of language learning and use. Priming methods originated in psycholinguistics, but have become increasingly common in applied linguistics over the past two decades.

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Some Effects of Explicit Grammar Instruction and Syntactic Priming on Students’ Written Language Production

Some Effects of Explicit Grammar Instruction and Syntactic Priming on Students’ Written Language Production

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