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报告题目：Facilitation without inhibition: A  study of listening comprehension in L2报告摘要：

When native speakers of English were asked to perform a  word recognition task on words that were highly predictable, less predictable,  or incongruent in a sentence context, they usually performed the task  significantly faster on the predictable words than on less predictable words,  and faster on less predictable but possible words than on incongruent words (Liu  et al., 1997). In the present study, we found that nonnative speakers showed a  context effect only on highly predictable words. No difference was found between  the second and third conditions. The results from a number of experiments  suggested that this nonnative pattern was not due to input presentation rates or  the use of a particular task. Two alternative explanations were outlined and  tested in the last experiment, the findings of which suggested that L2 speakers  seemed to have difficulty in suppressing highly predictable information that was  not part of the input. The findings of the present study call for further  research into the reasons for such difficulty.

报告人：Prof. Nan Jiang       

    School of Language, University  of Maryland, USA

报告时间：2011年12月14日上午10点

报告地点：小红楼三层大会议室

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                   2011.12.11