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Time and Motion: Measuring the Effects of the Conceptual Demands of Tasks on Second Language Speech Production
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The authors found that there is more developmentally advanced use of tense-aspect morphology on conceptually demanding tasks compared with less demanding tasks, and a trend to more target-like use of lexicalization patterns for referring to motion on complex tasks.Abstract:
The Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson 2005) claims that pedagogic tasks should be sequenced for learners in an order of increasing cognitive complexity, and that along resource-directing dimensions of task demands increasing effort at conceptualization promotes more complex and grammaticized second language (L2) speech production. This article summarizes results of two studies that measured the effects of increasing the complexity of task demands in conceptual domains using specific measures of the accuracy and complexity of speech. These measures are motivated by research into the development of tense–aspect morphology when referring to time (Shirai 2002), and by typological, cross-linguistic research into using lexicalization patterns when referring to motion (Cadierno 2008). Results show there is more developmentally advanced use of tense–aspect morphology on conceptually demanding tasks compared with less demanding tasks, and a trend to more target-like-use of lexicalization patterns for referring to motion on complex tasks.read more
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第二语言习得研究 = The study of second language acquisition
TL;DR: Second language acquisition research has been extensively studied in the literature as discussed by the authors, with a focus on second language acquisition in the context of English as a Second Language Learning (ESL) programs.
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Modelling Second Language Performance: Integrating Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Lexis
TL;DR: It is argued that fluency needs to be rethought if it is to be measured effectively, and that the three general measures need to be supplemented by measures of lexical use, and generalizations are reviewed which focus on inter-relationships between the measures.
Defining and operationalising L2 complexity
Bram Bulté,Alex Housen +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter takes a critical look at complexity in L2 research by presenting a taxonomic model that identifies major types, dimensions and components of L2 complexity, each of which can be independently analysed or measured.
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Task‐Based Language Learning: A Review of Issues
TL;DR: Theoretically motivated, empirical research into task-based language learning has been prompted by proposals for taskbased language teaching as mentioned in this paper, and early and more recent proposals for how taskbased learning can stimulate acquisition processes and the theoretical rationales that have guided research into them.
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The Cognition Hypothesis: A Synthesis and Meta-Analysis of Research on Second Language Task Complexity.
TL;DR: The authors employed synthetic and meta-analytic techniques to review the literature on the Cognition Hypothesis, which predicts that increasing task complexity influences the quality of second language production, and found small positive effects for accuracy and small negative effects for fluency.
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Verbs and Times
TL;DR: The time schemata presupposed by various verbs will appear as important constituents of the concepts that prompt us to use those terms the way the authors consistently do and may be used as models of comparison in exploring and clarifying the behavior of any verb whatever.