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This paper reports on an experiment designed to examine the issue concerning whether access to word meanings in the L2 mental lexicon would be inhibited by individual differences in working memory capacity of Chinese - speaking learners of English. Using the operation span task as the measure of the language - unrelated working memory capacity based on the general capacity model proposed by Engle et al. (1992), the results from this experiment revealed a null effect of working memory capacity, suggesting that working memory capacity is not an important factor in the task of primed lexical decision where Chinese learners of English were engaged in L2 semantic processing.
This paper reports on an experiment designed to examine the issue concerning whether access to word meanings in the L2 mental lexicon would be inhibited by individually differences in working memory capacity of Chinese - speaking learners of English. Using the operation span task as the measure of the language - unrelated working memory capacity based on the general capacity model proposed by Engle et al. (1992), the results from this experiment revealed a null effect of working memory capacity, suggesting that working memory capacity is not an important factor in the task of primed lexical decision where Chinese learners of English were engaged in L2 semantic processing.