Foreign Language Proficiency and Working Memory Capacity

By M. V. Noort, P. Bosch, Kenneth Hugdahl. 2006

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The role of L1 and L2 working memory in literal and inferential comprehension in L2 reading (2010, result): “In line with the findings of the few studies on the subject (e.g. Van den Noort et al., 2006), we hypothesised a larger storage capacity and more accurate task-processing in the L1 compared with the L2 (Hypothesis 1).”
Aspects of working memory in L2 learning (2011, background): “Evidence for a correlation between WM capacity and practice (Turley-Ames & Whitfield 2003; Lee & Chen 2005; van den Noort et al. 2006) suggests that WM capacity is a DYNAMIC construct that reflects the learner’s knowledge organization and experience, rather than a relatively fixed individual trait…”
THE ROLES OF PHONOLOGICAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY AND WORKING MEMORY IN L2 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY LEARNING (2012, methodology): “Phonological short-term memory refers to storage alone, measured by nonword repetition or nonword recognition (van den Noort et al., 2006).”
Proficiency and working memory based explanations for nonnative speakers’ sensitivity to agreement in sentence processing (2012, background): “The results of this study also showed that L2 learners had lower reading-span scores in French than native French speakers, consistent with the findings of previous studies (e.g., Harrington & Sawyer, 1992; Osaka & Osaka, 1992; Service et al., 2002; Van den Noort et al., 2006).”