Young EFL learners' pausing behaviorexploring pause thresholds in two proficiency levels

  1. Garcés-Manzanera, Aitor 1
  1. 1 Universidad del Atlántico Medio, España
Journal:
Espiral. Cuadernos del profesorado

ISSN: 1988-7701

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 16

Issue: 32

Pages: 64-75

Type: Article

DOI: 10.25115/ECP.V16I32.9047 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

El estudio del comportamiento de pausas en la escritura en L2 ha sido un tema de interés reciente (Lindgren & Sullivan, 2019). Estudios empíricos han examinado el comportamiento de las pausas desde diferentes perspectivas. Un elemento controvertido es el umbral de pausa, que se utiliza para determinar los procesos cognitivos asociados con la escritura en L2 (Alves et al., 2008). Mientras que la investigación se ha centrado en cómo varía el comportamiento de las pausas según el umbral en escritores adultos en L2 (Medimorec & Risko, 2017), este aspecto de la escritura no se ha examinado en escritores infantiles en L2. Este estudio analiza el comportamiento de las pausas y la fluidez de transcripción en escritores infantiles en L2 en una tarea de escritura basada en imágenes. Los resultados indican que las pausas en los límites de palabra son más frecuentes que en oraciones o párrafos. Además, el efecto del límite del texto no se replicó completamente, en contraste con lo que han mostrado los estudios en escritores adultos en L2 (Wengelin, 2007).

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