Causal and Semantic Relations in L2 Text Processing: An Eye-Tracking Study

dc.contributor.author Nahatame, Shingo
dc.date.accessioned 2022-04-19T00:27:52Z
dc.date.available 2022-04-19T00:27:52Z
dc.date.issued 2022-04-15
dc.description.abstract This study is an extension of Nahatame’s (2018) research that demonstrated the effects of causal and semantic relations between sentences on second language (L2) text processing. Employing eye tracking, this study aimed to examine whether these effects appear during more natural, uninterrupted reading processes and to identify the time course of the effects. In the experiment, Japanese learners of English read two-sentence texts that varied in their causal and semantic relatedness, as evaluated by crowdsourced human judgments and via a computational approach (latent semantic analysis), respectively. Two eye-movement measures were collected and analyzed: first-pass reading times for the second sentence and lookbacks from the second to the first sentence. The results indicated that causal relatedness had a robust impact on both reading times and lookbacks. However, semantic relatedness impacted only reading times, and its effects were modulated by causal relatedness. Theoretical, pedagogical, and methodological implications of this finding were discussed.
dc.identifier.citation Nahatame, S. (2022). Causal and Semantic Relations in L2 Text Processing: An Eye-Tracking Study. Reading in a Foreign Language, 34(1), 91-115. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67414
dc.identifier.issn 1539-0578
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67414
dc.publisher University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.publisher Center for Language & Technology
dc.subject reading processes
dc.subject eye tracking
dc.subject discourse processing
dc.subject coherence
dc.subject psycholinguistics
dc.subject computational linguistics
dc.subject English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
dc.title Causal and Semantic Relations in L2 Text Processing: An Eye-Tracking Study
dc.type Article
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.endingpage 115
prism.number 1
prism.publicationname Reading in a Foreign Language
prism.startingpage 91
prism.volume 34
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