Mathis Wetzel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mathis Wetzel plays a role.
Articles
2024 The role of complexity in the ability to notice incoherent uses of connectives for L2 Journal of Second Language Studies 7:1, pp. 44–74 | Article
When learning a second language, some connectives are more difficult to acquire and to master than others. While previous research has assessed different factors responsible for this difficulty by using offline tasks, little is known about the extent to which L2-readers are sensitive to… read more
2022 Processing clause-internal discourse relations in a second language: A case study of specifications in German and French Journal of Second Language Studies 5:2, pp. 206–234 | Article
Coherence relations are expressed differently across languages, often leading to language learners misusing discourse connectives. We argue that the ability to detect these errors crucially depends on the coherence relation under scrutiny, as errors may remain unnoticed when the relation is… read more