Transfer of Reading Comprehension Skills to L2 is Linked to Mental Representations of Text and to L2 Working Memory

By C. Walter. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Incremental interpretation in second language sentence processing (2006, background): “Poor L1 comprehenders have been shown to be less able to detect anomalies (Hannon and Daneman, 2004), and people with low working memory in the L2 are less able to detect semantic anomalies when reading stories in the L2 (Walter, 2004).”
Critical thinking in a second language (2011, background): “Walter’s ( 2004 ) study indicates that reading comprehension is related to ‘structure‐building activity’ (the way readers build up a mental picture of a text’s structure, mentally referring backwards in the text to relate ideas) as well as to working memory.”
The role of L1 and L2 working memory in literal and inferential comprehension in L2 reading (2010, background): “Walter (2004), who examined the relationship between reading span and L2 reading comprehension for a group of upper- and lower-intermediate French learners of English, found a low correlation between L1 reading span and summary completion in the L2 (r 5 .33) but a strong relationship between L2…”
CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY IN INTERACTION-DRIVEN L2 LEARNING (2012, background): “…al., 2009 ; Kormos & Sáfár, 2008 ; Miyake & Friedman, 1998 ; Robinson, 2005 a, 2005 b; Sagarra, 2007 , 2008 ; Skehan, 2002 ; Tokowicz et al., 2004 ; Walter, 2004 ; see also Williams, 2012 , for a review), is individual differences in WMC. Learners with high WMC may notice more recasts (Mackey et…”
Proficiency and working memory based explanations for nonnative speakers’ sensitivity to agreement in sentence processing (2012, background): “…L2 WM capacity and L2 comprehension (e.g., Altekin & Erçetin, 2010; Harrington & Sawyer, 1992; Miyake & Friedman, 1998; Service et al., 2002; Walter, 2004), she predicted L2 grammatical performance to be more strongly dependent on WM capacity in the L2 than on WM capacity in the native…”
Aspects of working memory in L2 learning (2011, methodology): “…tests, such as the speaking span test (Fortkamp 1999; Mizera 2005; Weissheimer & Mota 2009), the use of different and more engaging comprehension tasks, such as the sentence completion task used by Abu-Rabia (2001), and the response time measures to assess processing more directly (Walter 2006).”