L2 Syntactic Alignment in the Reading-Writing Integrated Continuation Task: Evidence From Chinese EFL Learners’ Description of Motion Events  

读后续写中的二语句法协同效应研究——来自中国学习者产出英语运动构式的证据

作　　者：Min WANG Qiao GAN Julie BOLAND 王敏;甘桥;朱莉·博兰德(西安交通大学外国语学院;(美国)密歇根大学心理学系)

机构地区：[1]Xi’an Jiaotong University [2]University of Michigan,US

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》2021年第3期292-313,430,共23页中国应用语言学（英文）

摘　　要：This study investigated how the mode in which the reading-writing integrated continuation task was conducted modulates the effects of second language(L2) syntactic alignment, through the English motion event construction with manner verbs. Ninety Chinese students were assigned to either of the two experimental groups or a control group, and they all experienced a pretest, an alignment phase and a posttest. In the alignment phase, the two experimental groups completed a reading-writing integrated continuation task but in different modes. For the multi-turn mode,participants reconstructed a picture story by continuing the episodes extracted from the story with one episode presented and continued at a time;for the single-turn mode, the first half of the same picture story was presented as a chunk, and then participants read and continued it. Results show that L2 learners aligned with the target structure in completing the story, and the alignment effect was retained in the posttest conducted after a delay of two weeks. Moreover, syntactic alignment was modulated by task mode with the multi-turn group exhibiting stronger immediate and longterm alignment effects. We conclude that the continuation task is a fruitful context for L2 structural alignment, and the magnitude of alignment effect hinges on interactive intensity.本研究考察任务模式对读后续写中句法协同效应的影响。研究采用前测-干预-后测的实验设计,目标结构为英语方式动词运动构式。90名中国大学生参加实验并被随机分配至两个实验组或控制组。两个实验组在干预阶段完成一个图片故事续写任务,但任务模式不同:多轮组所要续写的故事被切分为若干片段,每轮呈现一个,被试续写该片段,然后开始下一轮,反复多次,直到整个故事构建完整;单轮组续写同一个故事,但故事的前半段一次性呈现给被试,被试读完之后,续写后半段。结果表明,读后续写中存在句法协同而且该效应会持续到两周以后,多轮组的协同效应强于单轮组。研究揭示出二语结构协同与互动强度有关,互动强则协同强。

关 键 词：reading-writing integrated continuation task syntactic alignment task mode interactive intensity motion event construction with manner verbs L2 learning 

分 类 号：H319.3[语言文字—英语]