Comprehending Implied Meaning in English as a Foreign Language

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Formulaic Sequences: Are They Processed More Quickly than Nonformulaic Language by Native and Nonnative Speakers? (2008, background): “The fact that the results also held for nonnatives indicates that it is possible for learners to enjoy the same type of processing advantage as natives.”
The Role of Task and Listener Characteristics in Second Language Listening. (2015, background): “Previous empirical studies indeed suggest that texts that require more inference result in increased comprehension difficulty (Garcia, 2004; Kostin, 2004; Nissan et al., 1996; Taguchi, 2005; Ying-hui, 2006).”
THE ROLE OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRAGMATIC COMPREHENSION (2008, background): “…that university entrance exams and other factors cause difficulty in implementing communicative teaching in Japan ~Gorsuch, 2000, 2001; McGroarty & Taguchi, 2005; Oka & Yoshida, 1997; Taguchi, 2002b, 2005b; Taguchi & Naganuma, 2006;Wada, 2002!+ These studies revealed that class time is largely…”
Proficiency, length of stay, and intensity of interaction and the acquisition of conventional expressions in L2 pragmatics (2011, background): “…learners of English were increasingly able to distinguish conventional expressions from grammatical but nonconventional expressions as proficiency increased; and Taguchi (2005, 2008) showed that L2 proficiency affects the accuracy of comprehension of implied meaning, but not rate of processing.”