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Direct linkTaguchi, Naoko – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2008
This study examines the role of environment in the development of pragmatic comprehension. It tracks two groups of Japanese students of English: 60 students in a college in Japan (English as a foreign language [EFL] learners) and 57 students in a college in the United States (English as a second language [ESL] learners). The learners completed a…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Pragmatics
Taguchi, Naoko – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2007
This study examined development of pragmatic comprehension ability across time. Twenty native speakers and 92 Japanese college students of English completed a computerized listening task measuring ability to comprehend two types of implied meaning in dialogues: indirect refusals (k = 24) and indirect opinions (k = 24). The participants'…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Effect Size, Language Processing, Native Speakers
Taguchi, Naoko – Modern Language Journal, 2005
This study investigated whether second language (L2) proficiency affects pragmatic comprehension, namely the ability to comprehend implied meaning in spoken dialogues, in terms of accuracy and speed of comprehension. Participants included 46 native English speakers at a U.S. university and 160 Japanese students of English in a college in Japan who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, English (Second Language), Language Processing
