Volume 22, No. 1 Special Issue: In Honor of Paul Nation Exploring a new technique for comparing bilinguals’ L1 and L2 reading speed

Exploring a new technique for comparing bilinguals’ L1 and L2 reading speed

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Volume 22, No. 1 Special Issue: In Honor of Paul Nation
contributor.author:
Gauvin, Hanna S. Hulstijn, Jan H.
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:09:58Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:09:58Z
date.issued:
2010-04
description.abstract:
Is it possible to tell whether bilinguals are able to read simple text in their two languages equally fluently? Is it thus possible to distinguish balanced bilinguals from unbalanced bilinguals with respect to reading fluency in their first language (L1) and second language (L2)? In this study, we avoided making direct comparisons between L1 and L2 reading speeds, comparing, instead, the amount of inhibition caused by a nonlinguistic, external factor (degraded text visibility). In two tasks, 32 university students read 20 target sentences in L1 Dutch and L2 English, each sentence appearing both in normal and in poorly readable font. Degraded font affected reading times substantially, more so in L2 than in L1, as predicted. However, it was not found that participants with higher L2 proficiency were less affected by degraded font in L2 reading than participants with lower L2 proficiency.
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endingpage:
103
identifier.doi:
10125/66644
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66644
number:
1
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
Methods and Materials
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/rfl/item/210
startingpage:
84
subject:
automaticity balanced bilingualism L1 reading L2 reading rauding reading speed sentence processing
title:
Exploring a new technique for comparing bilinguals’ L1 and L2 reading speed
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Article
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Text
volume:
22