Japanese EFL learners' off-line syntactic processing strategies revisited

The first aim is to reexamine and reconfirm if the results obtained in Experiment 1 can be applicable to those in Experiment 2 with such different variables as the subjects’ learners factors as well as the selected stimulus sentences used as data-collection task items. In Experiment 1, there are 12 stimulus sentences while in Experiment 2, the number was reduced to the eight ones with a view to carrying out further detailed analysis of the results to corraborate with those of of Experiment 1. The second but more significant aim is to investigate and consider whether there are any significant effects of subsequent discourse contexts on resolution of the ambiguity elicited by a garden path sentence in a single sentence level condition, by comparing the results in Experiment 2 and those in Experiment 3. Japanese EFL Learners’ Off-line Syntactic Processing Strategies Revisited