When Feelings Arise with Meanings: How Emotion and Meaning of a Native Language Affect Second Language Processing in Adult Learners

Agnes Sianipar; Renée Middelburg; Ton Dijkstra

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144576

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When Feelings Arise with Meanings: How Emotion and Meaning of a Native Language Affect Second Language Processing in Adult Learners

Agnes Sianipar ,

* E-mail: a.wulandari@donders.ru.nl

Affiliations Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
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Renée Middelburg,

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Ton Dijkstra

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognition, Montessorilaan 3, 6525 HR, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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When Feelings Arise with Meanings: How Emotion and Meaning of a Native Language Affect Second Language Processing in Adult Learners

Agnes Sianipar,
Renée Middelburg,
Ton Dijkstra

Published: December 10, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144576

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Too much jargon

Posted by cmulligan on 16 Dec 2015 at 15:53 GMT

There is far too much jargon to understand this article - L2, ERP, RT - none of these terms from the abstract are defined and it makes it impossible to understand the article which is frustrating given the interesting and accessible title.

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