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Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning
Edited by Edith Kaan and Theres Grüter
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition 12] 2021
► pp. 207–232

Chapter 10
Forcing prediction increases priming and adaptation in second language production

| University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
| University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
| Penn State University

This paper presents a priming experiment with Korean learners of English designed to test the hypothesis that engagement in prediction and the consequent computation of prediction error will lead to increased priming and adaptation. Participants in the guessing-game condition, who had to predict a virtual partner’s description of prime pictures, showed marginally greater immediate priming and significantly greater adaptation in terms of change from baseline to post-test than those in a standard repetition priming condition, consistent with error-based learning accounts of structural priming. Effects were largest for learners in the middle of the proficiency range. Findings from this study suggest that priming best facilitates L2 learning when learners are engaged in the proactive creation of expectations about upcoming information.

Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Structural priming and learning from prediction error
  • Prediction in L2 processing and structural priming
  • The role of L2 proficiency in predictive processing and structural priming
  • This study
  • Methods
    • Participants
    • Materials
    • Procedure
    • Guessing game (GG) condition
    • Control condition (CC)
    • Data annotation and analysis
  • Results
    • Production of predicted primes in the GG group
    • Proficiency
    • Exit interview
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 22 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.12.10gru
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