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Word-Nonword Phonological Memory and L2 Proficiency

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현대영어교육학회 (The Modern English Education Society)|2015.02|현대영어교육 (Modern English Education)|제16권 제1호|pp. 1-19

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accuracyL2 proficiencyreaction timephonological memory

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This study examines whether phonological memory (PM) of adult Korean learners ofEnglish correlates with their proficiency levels in L2. Previous studies have shown that PM is significantly related to L1 and L2 learning, mostly with regard to vocabulary and grammar. The present study measured PM with both English words and English-based nonwords in order to examine its relationship with L2 proficiency. Twenty Korean learners of English at different proficiency levels performed serial recognition tasks of PM words and nonwords. According to a repeated measures analysis of variance(ANOVA) and Pearson correlation, both accuracy and reaction time data revealed asignificant relationship between PM words and L2 proficiency. The high group wasmore accurate and faster than the low group with PM words. However, no significantrelationship was found between PM nonwords and L2 proficiency. The results indicate the high group learners’ better performance with PM words was not replicated in PM nonwords. Additionally, the two groups exhibited different reaction times with different pair types in words, with the high group showing faster reaction time. No differencewas observed with different pair types in nonwords. The findings of the present studyimply that words and nonwords are differently processed by the high group L2 learners of English unlike the low group.

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This study examines whether phonological memory (PM) of adult Korean learners ofEnglish correlates with their proficiency levels in L2. Previous studies have shown that PM is significantly related to L1 and L2 learning, mostly with regard to vocabulary and grammar. The present study measured PM with both English words and English-based nonwords in order to examine its relationship with L2 proficiency. Twenty Korean learners of English at different proficiency levels performed serial recognition tasks of PM words and nonwords. According to a repeated measures analysis of variance(ANOVA) and Pearson correlation, both accuracy and reaction time data revealed asignificant relationship between PM words and L2 proficiency. The high group wasmore accurate and faster than the low group with PM words. However, no significantrelationship was found between PM nonwords and L2 proficiency. The results indicate the high group learners’ better performance with PM words was not replicated in PM nonwords. Additionally, the two groups exhibited different reaction times with different pair types in words, with the high group showing faster reaction time. No differencewas observed with different pair types in nonwords. The findings of the present studyimply that words and nonwords are differently processed by the high group L2 learners of English unlike the low group.

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