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The Role of Attention in Monitoring Second Language Speech Production
Author(s) -
Kormos Judit
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/0023-8333.00120
Subject(s) - psychology , utterance , automaticity , linguistics , speech production , speech error , competence (human resources) , language proficiency , linguistic competence , cognitive psychology , psycholinguistics , social psychology , cognition , philosophy , neuroscience , pedagogy
The study investigates the role of attention in monitoring second language speechproduction by means of analyzing the distribution and frequency of self‐repairs and the correction rate of errors in the speech of 30 Hungarian learners of English at 3 levels of proficiency and of 10 native speakers of Hungarian. The results indicate that the amount of attention paid to the linguistic form of the utterance does not vary at different stages of L2 competence and that the distribution of attention in monitoring for errors is markedly different inL1 and L2. In the case of advanced L2 speakers, the extra attentional resources made available by the automaticity of certain encoding processes were used for checking the discourse‐level aspects of their message.