ARELE : annual review of English language education in Japan 22 95-110 2011年3月
The present study examines the relationship between syntactic processing of relative clause sentences in L2 English and learners' proficiency of the target language. Two groups of Japanese learners of English at different proficiency levels, ...
ARELE : annual review of English language education in Japan 21 61-70 2010年3月
This study investigated the use of verb subcategorization information during sentence comprehension by Japanese EFL learners, using a self-paced reading task with the embedded anomaly technique. In order to observe when the syntactic structure was...
ARELE : annual review of English language education in Japan 18 201-210 2007年3月
The aim of this paper is to investigate the difficulties Japanese EFL learners encounter in reading various post-modifications. First language (L1) psycholinguistic studies show that difficulties to comprehend sentences with relative clauses are a...