Japanese EFL Learners' Syntactic Analyses : Focusing on Learners' Sentence Comprehension and Production

• TAKAKUWA Jun

  Graduate School, Naruto University of Education

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 日本人英語学習者の統語分析 : 文の理解と産出に焦点を当てて

Abstract

This research presents two conclusions about EFL learner's syntactic processing in the written language. First, the experiment made on senior high school students showed the possibility that an enforced decrease of syntactic processing strategies leads to a smaller difference between comprehension and production. Second, it demonstrated that some of the subjects clearly followed the different syntactic processing mechanisms in comprehension and in production. Some could not comprehend relative clauses well though they could produce them. Others could not produce but could comprehend them. These results show the possibility that there is little difference between comprehension and production in EFL learners' pure syntactic processing in the written language, though the learners may have two different syntactic processing mechanisms running in opposite directions.

Journal

• ARELE: Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan

  ARELE: Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan 12 (0), 11-20, 2001

  The Japan Society of English Language Education

Details

• CRID: 1390001205822024576
• NII Article ID: 110008512197
• DOI: 10.20581/arele.12.0_11
• ISSN: 24320412
• ISSN: 13448560
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed