Datasets used to conduct the research of the doctoral thesis entitled "The effects of WMC on L2 oral fluency and acceptability of object resumptive pronouns among adult learners"

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This data set contains the following data: Audios, Links to online forms, Excel databases, PDF documents Study 1: Does working memory capacity (WMC) have an effect on the L2 oral fluency of late L2 learners (L2Aers)? Study 2: Does WMC have an effect on the acceptability of object resumptive (R) pronouns among L2Aers? In order to answer these questions the following tasks were created: A Reading Span Task (RST) and Listening Span Task (LST) to measure WMC. For Study 1: a Speech Generation Task (SGT) to extract temporal measures of L2 oral fluency. For Study 2: a Grammaticality Judgment Task (GJT) to measure the acceptability of R pronouns. The research involved 3 groups of participants: A group of intermediate L2Aers A group of advanced L2Aers A group of native speakers of English Therefore, the data here included is comprised and was used in the following manner: - The results of the RST and LST are available in an Excel database, and are organized by group of participants; these data were used for both study 1 and study 1. - The results of the calculation of temporal measures of oral fluency are available in an Excel database and organized by group of participants. These measures were used for study 1. - To extract the measures of oral fluency, the responses from the SGT were recorded and analyzed using PRAAT. The recorded responses are available in audio format and last approximately 30 seconds each. The audios are organized in folders; a folder has been created by group of participants. These audios were used to extract temporal measures of oral fluency for study 1. - The rates of acceptability for R pronouns (and for the other sentence conditions) are available in the Excel data based here included. The databases are organized by language of the GJT and sentence condition; an individual Excel database was created per group of participants. These databases were used for Study 1. - The rates of acceptability were collected using a GJT in English and Spanish. The links to the online forms that were used to apply these GJTs are available in this dataset as well. - A pilot to test the acceptability of the grammatical conditions included in the GJT was conducted. The links to the online forms of the GJTs in English and Spanish are included, as well as the Excel databases in which the responses of the pilot GJTs are included. An Excel database was created for the responses of the pilot GJT in English, and one for the GJT in Spanish (the pilot GJTs were applied to native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish).

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