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Is English Sentence Recognition Affected by English Learning, English Competency, and English Use?
What is it about?
Bilinguals differ widely in how they acquire languages; as such, it is always of interest to which language variable(s) is (are) the most critical in understanding their performance. This study included a group of bilinguals with various first languages and English learning backgrounds and developed models using these language background variables to predict bilinguals' recognition of English sentences degraded by noise and echo (reverberation). One of the key findings is that variables related to reading is highly relevant to how one uses context to recognize degraded English sentences.
Why is it important?
This study compares a host of variables in English learning, English competency, and English proficiency variables in how they may help us understand bilinguals' recognition of English sentences corrupted by noise and echo. Evidence from this study shows the importance of reading variables in the quantification of one's skills in sentence recognition. This finding is unique since performance was assessed on a listening task.