Young EFL learners' pausing behavior: exploring pause thresholds in two proficiency levels

IF 2.3 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Aitor Garcés-Manzanera
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Abstract

The study of pausological behavior in L2 writing has been a matter of interest in recent years (see Lindgren & Sullivan, 2019), leading to a number of empirical studies which have explored pausing behavior from different angles. Among the many elements of pausological behavior, the pause threshold has aroused controversy in recent years (Alves et al., 2008) given its role in helping to discern lower-level and higher-level cognitive processes associated with L2 writing. While the research intent has focused recently on observing how pausological behavior varies according to the pause thresholds in adult L2 writers (Medimorec & Risko, 2017), this element of writing has not been examined in children L2 writers. For that purpose, this study analyzes pausological behavior and transcription fluency based on a picture-based story task by children L2 writers. Results indicate that pauses at word boundaries were more frequent than at sentence or paragraph boundaries. Likewise, the text boundary effect was not fully replicated, contrary to what studies in adult L2 writers have shown (see Wengelin, 2007). 
青年英语学习者的停顿行为:探讨两种熟练程度下的停顿阈值
近年来,对二语写作中的停顿行为的研究一直是人们感兴趣的问题(见Lindgren & Sullivan, 2019),导致了许多从不同角度探索停顿行为的实证研究。在暂停行为的诸多因素中,暂停阈值近年来引起了争议(Alves et al., 2008),因为它有助于区分与二语写作相关的低级和高级认知过程。虽然最近的研究意图集中在观察成年二语作家的停顿行为如何根据停顿阈值而变化(Medimorec & Risko, 2017),但这一写作要素尚未在儿童二语作家中进行研究。为此,本研究分析了儿童二语作者的心理行为和转录流畅性,基于一个基于图片的故事任务。结果表明,单词边界处的停顿比句子或段落边界处的停顿更频繁。同样,文本边界效应也没有被完全复制,这与对成人二语作者的研究结果相反(见Wengelin, 2007)。
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