The L2 Acquisition of Italian Tense

Behney, Jennifer; Spinner, Patti; Gass, Susan M.; Valmori, Lorena

doi:10.4324/9781315399027-5

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“…It is therefore more noticeable in the language stream compared to a one‐letter bound morpheme (the future tense prefix). SLA research has widely reported that morphosyntactic features are some of the least commonly noticed features by language learners and are thus more difficult to acquire (Al‐Surmi, ; Behney et al, ; Cintrón‐Valentín & N. C. Ellis, ; N. C. Ellis, , , , ; N. C. Ellis & Collins, ; Godfroid, ; Godfroid & Uggen, ; Loewen & Sato, ; Simoens et al, ).…”

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“…Ryan, Hamrick, Miller, and Was () studied salience in relation to vocabulary learning and reported that the success of created salience through TE was dependent on deeper cognitive processing after noticing. Simoens, Housen, and De Cuypere () also reported that form salience enhanced noticing and learning in the context of inflectional morphology (also see Behney et al, ).…”

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“…A specific characteristic pertinent to L2 form noticing and L2 development is the salience of the forms. Despite the significance of salience in second language acquisition (SLA) discussions over the past 50 years and its relevance to current discussions, it is a construct that “remains elusive” and has not had a thorough treatment in the literature (Gass, Spinner, & Behney, , p. 6). A specific underresearched context in relation to form salience is L2 production, particularly in the learning of non‐Western languages.…”

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“…With L2 instruction in mind, several researchers have agreed that form salience could be induced through external measures (i.e., externally induced salience [Sharwood Smith, ], or created salience [Gass et al, ]). This notion resonates with Sharwood Smith's () term consciousness‐raising (later input enhancement in 1991) in which the learner's attention is drawn to the “formal properties” of the L2 through a continuum of techniques with different degrees of implicitness or explicitness (e.g., providing numerous examples of target features, or bolding, highlighting, or underlining these features)…”

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“…The current study built on these findings by investigating the role of form salience in noticing and production in the context of monologic L2 production. The study also attempted to contribute to an understanding of the acquisition of verbal morphology (Behney et al, ) in the learning of a rich‐morphology language, Arabic.…”

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Salience in the noticing and production of L2 arabic forms

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2019

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This study investigated the effect that the salience of an L2 form has on learner noticing and production of the form. The study also explored the effects that task type (output vs. input) has on form noticing and production. The study targeted three Arabic forms: a low salient form (the future tense) and two salient ones (time telling and time connectors). Eighty beginning‐level learners of Arabic were assigned to two treatment conditions: output and input. The output group described a picture story; listened to, read, and underlined an Arabic speaker's description of the story; and redid the picture description. The input group answered pre‐text exposure questions; listened to, read, and underlined the same model description; and answered posttext exposure questions. There was an immediate posttest, and a delayed posttest and interviews two weeks later. The findings suggest that the salience of the target forms affected form noticing and production, but task type only had a mediating effect on production; output did not promote learner noticing of L2 forms better than input, but it did lead to partial gains in form production.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Salience in the noticing and production of L2 arabic forms

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2019

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Perceptual salience and structural ambiguity resolution

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Witzel

2023

Applied Psycholinguistics

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This study investigates whether the perceptual salience of grammatical morphemes influences the online processing of temporarily ambiguous sentences during adult first-language (L1) comprehension. In a bidirectional self-paced reading task, adult L1 English participants (N = 44) read sentences with time adjuncts that were in a structural position in which they could attach either to the most recent verb phrase (VP) or to a VP in a higher clause. Consistent with previous findings, the reading times on these sentences indicated processing difficulty when this adjunct allowed only for high attachment. Crucially, this effect was modulated by the perceptual salience of the grammatical morphemes used to indicate time reference in these clauses. Specifically, the processing cost for high attachment was larger when time in the lower clause was indicated by the auxiliary verb will compared to when it was indicated by the relatively less salient past -ed morpheme. These findings were taken to indicate that the influence of perceptual salience extends beyond the acquisition of and sensitivity to grammatical morphemes during L1 and L2 development. Rather, the perceptual salience of these forms also appears to affect online structural processing during adult L1 sentence comprehension.

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