Attainability of a Native-like Lexical Processing System in Adult Second Language Acquisition: A Study of Advanced L2 Chinese Learners

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Attainability of a Native-like Lexical Processing System in Adult Second Language Acquisition: A Study of Advanced L2 Chinese Learners

成人第二語字彙處理系統之終點成就：高程度中文學習者案例研究

劉宇挺(Yeu-Ting Liu)

語言暨語言學； 10卷3期 (2009 / 07 / 01) ， P489 - 520

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成人第二語習得；語言學習關鍵期；第二語字彙處理；第二語識字；形音轉換； adult second language acquisition ； L2 ultimate attainment ； L2 lexical processing ； L2 written-word recognition ； phonological recoding

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Considering the differential successes and failures in adult second language acquisition (SLA), many researchers have urged that studies on L2 ultimate attainment should identify the domains in which adult L2 learners are (or are not) able to attain native-like proficiency levels, hence providing a descriptive basis for the learning potential in adult SLA. In particular, both Birdsong (2005) and Sorace (2005) contend that at the L2 end-state, the fundamental difference between native speakers and highly proficient late L2 learners often reside in the processing system, thereby leading to minor quantitative and/or qualitative departures from monolingual norms. To test the above claim, this study explored whether a nativelike lexical processing system can be attained by advanced L2 learners who start acquiring Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language long after the onset of puberty. To this end, the study employed the advanced-learner approach, recruiting 23 adult L2 Chinese learners, whose L2 reading skills were comparable to native Chinese speakers, and 23 native speakers of Chinese as controls. Two online reading tasks that aimed to tap into sentence-level Chinese character recognition were administered to the participants. Data revealed that, while the two groups were comparable in terms of their overall Chinese reading ability, both similarities and differences co-existed between them with regard to the underlying lexical processing procedure and the nature of the activated lexical information; nevertheless, these L2 learners were still able to achieve functional equivalence with natives at the performance level. Based upon these findings, implications for L2 end-state lexical processing system will be discussed.

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Liu, Mei-Hui,Chang, Jung-Hsuan(2018).When Eastern and Western CFL Learners Make Requests and Refusals: The Issue of Cultural Backgrounds.intergrams,18(1),1-34-002.
Liu, Yeu-Ting(2011).Focus on Form as a Pedagogical Framework for Fostering a Native-like Mandarin Tonal Identification System.語言暨語言學,12(3),627-667.
Liu, Yeu-Ting(2015).Enhancing L2 Digital Reading for EFL Learners.英語教學期刊,39(2),33-64.
LIU, Yeu-Ting(2018).Revisiting the Practice of Keyword-Semantic Mnemonics in L2 Chinese Vocabulary Instruction from the Cognitive Perspective.華語文教學研究,15(4),1-34.
(2018).Linguistic relativity in L2 acquisition: Chinese-English bilinguals' reading of Chinese counterfactual statements.語言暨語言學,19(1),117-155.

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