Inferential evaluation and revision in L1 and L2 text comprehension: An eye movement study
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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10481/85239Metadatos
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Cambridge University Press
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L2 text comprehension Inferential evaluation Revisión Inhibitory control Linguistic proficiency
Date
2023-11Referencia bibliográfica
Pérez, A.I., Schmidt, E., & Tsimpli, I.M. (2023). Inferential evaluation and revision in L1 and L2 text comprehension: An eye movement study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1–14. [https://doi.org/10.1017/ S136672892300069X]
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This research was supported by the grant with ref. 754446-AT3i funded by a MSCA-COFUND Athenea3i and the research project with ref. PSI 2017-89324-C2-2-P funded by MCIN, both to Ana Pérez. Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Granada.Résumé
Text comprehension frequently demands the resolution of no longer plausible interpretations to build an accurate situation model, an ability that might be especially challenging during second language comprehension. Twenty-two native English speakers (L1) and twenty-two highly proficient non-native English speakers (L2) were presented with short narratives in English. Each text required the evaluation and revision of an initial prediction. Eye movements in the text and a comprehension sentence indicated less efficient performance in the L2 than in L1 comprehension, in both inferential evaluation and revision. Interestingly, these effects were determined by individual differences in inhibitory control and linguistic proficiency. Higher inhibitory control reduced the time rereading previous parts of the text (better evaluation) as well as revisiting the text before answering the sentence (better revision) in L2 comprehenders, whereas higher proficiency reduced the time in the sentence when the story was coherent, suggesting better general comprehension in both languages.