He Qiaoling, Oltra-Massuet Isabel
College of General Education, Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing 400031, China.
Department of English and German Studies, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, 43002 Tarragona, Spain.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Jan 24;13(2):99. doi: 10.3390/bs13020099.
This study aims to explore whether advanced EFL learners can acquire implicit knowledge of basic sentence structures, such as English questions. We ran a reaction-time experiment, a word monitoring test experiment to test learners' implicit knowledge by checking advanced EFL learners' grammatical sensitivity to English questions with five types of grammatical errors. The study recruited three groups of participants: native English speakers ( 12), advanced Chinese EFL learners ( 32), and advanced Spanish EFL learners ( 37). Our results revealed that advanced EFL learners had not yet attained native-equivalent implicit grammar knowledge in English questions, despite their English proficiency level. The results also indicated that the learners' different L1 languages do not impact advanced learners' overall implicit knowledge acquisition but constitute influential factors for particular morphosyntactic inflections in English question formation.
本研究旨在探讨高级英语外语学习者是否能够习得基本句子结构的隐性知识，比如英语疑问句。我们进行了一项反应时实验，即一个单词监测测试实验，通过检查高级英语外语学习者对带有五种语法错误类型的英语疑问句的语法敏感度，来测试学习者的隐性知识。该研究招募了三组参与者：以英语为母语者（12人）、中国高级英语外语学习者（32人）和西班牙高级英语外语学习者（37人）。我们的研究结果表明，尽管高级英语外语学习者具备一定的英语水平，但他们在英语疑问句方面尚未获得与以英语为母语者相当的隐性语法知识。研究结果还表明，学习者不同的第一语言不会影响高级学习者整体隐性知识的习得，但在英语疑问句形成过程中，这些不同的第一语言是特定形态句法变化的影响因素。
