リスニング・スパン・テストにおける記憶表象とEFL言語能力の特徴

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This study investigated the characteristics of phonological language information processing for English as a foreign language (EFL) learners from two perspectives, "the relationships between Working Memory (WM) capacity and language comprehension" and "WM capacity and the characteristics of recall errors for target words." The research utilized the "Listening Span Test (LST)" measuring for WM capacity in phonological language information and the "English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT)" measuring various factors of English abilities. The participants were divided into three groups based on LST scores. The results showed that the learners with the higher LST scores tended to get higher scores on each English comprehension section, and regarding the characteristics of recall errors for target words, the errors for target words were striking, intrusion errors were obvious, while imaging errors were few. On the basis of these results, it is suggested that phonological language information processing is not a simple mechanism that exists in a relation of "processing-storage trade-off" but a complicated one, which enhances higher level processing, despite interference from prior language information.
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