Can Japanese ESL Students Recognize the Correct Order of Adjectives in Noun Phrases?

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概要

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• English adjective order is determined by the features of specific adjectives although not by explicit syntactic rules. Using a noun phrase correctness decision task, the present study investigated the effects of rearranged adjective order on the ability of Japanese university ESL students to correctly process English noun phrases. Error rates and reaction times indicated no difference between high and low English reading comprehension groups. Since only the most basic of English adjectives were selected for stimulus items, and since error rates were high among ESL students at both high and low levels, Japanese university students are seen to lack knowledge of rules outlining the correct usage of adjectives in English. The present study further examined the effects of three conditions of adjective disordering - 'short-distance' disordering, 'long-distance' disordering and 'short- and long-distance' co-disordering - from correct adjective ordering. Only extremely (i.e., 'short- and long-distance' co-disordering) disordered noun phrases were more accurately rejected than less disordered phrases and items exhibiting 'short-distance' disordering and 'long-distance' disordering showed no difference. This finding may suggest that the key to correctly identifying incorrect adjective order lies not in the distance of disorder, but in the number of adjectives which are disordered.

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著者

• Tamaoka Katsuo

  Hiroshima University

• Meerman Arthur

  Hiroshima Shudo University

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