L2 learners take more time to catch the rhyme: An eye-tracking study on predictive processing

Prediction During Within- and Cross-Language Phrase Comprehension: Evidence from Eye-Tracking

Language comprehension involves actively predicting upcoming words, but it remains unclear how the brain responds when predictions are disconfirmed. In the present study, we examined the effect of prediction disconfirmation by measuring eye movements in two visual-world eye-tracking experiments. Additionally, we explor...

EMPIRICAL STUDY The Role of Awareness and Cognitive Aptitudes in L2 Predictive Language Processing

First language influences on the production of morphologically complex lexical stress

Although prior research suggests that suprasegmental phonological awareness contributes to English learners’ acquisition of lexical stress, less attention has been paid to morphological awareness and how learners’ first language (L1) shapes this ability, particularly since morpho-phonological cues change how stress...

Language Proficiency Assessment from Eye Movements in Naturalistic Passage Reading

This work validate and extend the eye movement based proficiency testing from single sentences to more naturalistic reading of contextualized passages in English as a second language, new proficiency measures, prediction models, and reading in an information seeking regime, and finds that the approach is effective in a...

The effect of contextual richness on L2 learners’ processing and incidental acquisition of non-literal English phrasal verbs: An eye-tracking study

Many studies have used post-tests to examine word-related factors, such as encounter frequency, that influence L2 learners’ incidental acquisition of single words. However, less is known about how context affects the processing and acquisition of multi-word units, such as non-literal English phrasal verbs (PVs), wh...

Modality effects on contextualized L2 vocabulary processing and learning: Benefits of reading while listening