著者

高桑 潤

出版者

全国英語教育学会

雑誌

ARELE : annual review of English language education in Japan (ISSN:13448560)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, pp.11-20, 2001-03

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This research presents two conclusions about EFL learner's syntactic processing in the written language. First, the experiment made on senior high school students showed the possibility that an enforced decrease of syntactic processing strategies leads to a smaller difference between comprehension and production. Second, it demonstrated that some of the subjects clearly followed the different syntactic processing mechanisms in comprehension and in production. Some could not comprehend relative clauses well though they could produce them. Others could not produce but could comprehend them. These results show the possibility that there is little difference between comprehension and production in EFL learners' pure syntactic processing in the written language, though the learners may have two different syntactic processing mechanisms running in opposite directions.