Individual Differences in L2 Sentence Processing

This book is intended for readers who are interested
in examining Chinese-speaking learners' differences
in the ability to comprehend certain self-embedded
multiply complex English sentences such as Peter
thinks that taking care of himself is necessary
surprises the cleaner. Three closely related
questions are addressed in the study: (i) what is
the relationship between Chinese learners'
educational level and their ability in complex
English sentence processing? (ii) what is the
relationship between working memory capacity
and educated Chinese learners' ability in complex
English sentence processing? (iii) is there a
correlation between educated Chinese learners's L1
proficiency and the ability in complex English
sentence processing? The research questions were
addressed by firstly providing some background
information, which was closely related to the
research questions; followed by four off-line and
three computer-administered self-paced reading
experiments.

Autorentext
Dr Hulin Ren completed his PhD at Lancaster University, UK. He
has been in teaching English as a second language at higher
educational level for more than ten years in China and now works
in Minzu University of China and Henan Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering College partially.