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Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2041

ReadMe Author: Kefan Yang, University of Southampton ORCID ID :0000-0003-2215-0504
This dataset supports the thesis entitled L2 learnability of viewpoint aspect at the initial stages of feature reassembly: a bidirectional study with learners of Chinese and Spanish
AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2022

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA


This dataset contains:
This section discusses the data collected via the experimental study designed to answer the research questions and investigate the interpretation of aspectual forms in Chinese and Spanish and the knowledge of the aspectual features in different contexts by L1 Spanish-L2 Chinese learners and L1 Chinese-L2 Spanish learners. 
The tasks for the participants were administrated via the ¡®iSurvey¡¯ website, a UK university survey administrating service. Each task was provided with clear instructions and sample test items in the participants¡¯ native language. 
The learners had no time limit for completing the tasks. However, they cannot return to the previous pages to alter their answers. There were two sets of distinct but equivalent tasks for the two types of participants in this study: L1 Spanish-L2 Chinese learners and L1 Chinese-L2 Spanish learners. 
Before conducting the experiment, an ethical approval was obtained from the University of Southampton Ethics Committee. 
In the following sections, I will introduce the tasks designed for the two types of learners separately. 

There are two types of learners in this study:
76 L1 Spanish-L2 Chinese learners studying Chinese as their undergraduate major at the University of Granada, Spain.

81 L1 Chinese-L2 Spanish undergraduate students enrolled in the School of Foreign Language Studies, Spanish BA program at Hebei Normal University.
Both these types of learners were divided into a beginners group and an intermediate group

22 native speakers of Chinese in China and 11 native speakers of Spanish in Spain were recruited into the control group

Each type of learners completed four tasks: 

Background questionaire, Proficiency test, Sentence Interpretation task, fill-in-the-blanks task.  


The raw data from these two types of learners were presented in Excel files named  "L1 Spanish-L2 Chinese 4 tasks" and "L1 Chinese-L2 Spanish" 4 tasks
These files also include information on the mean scores of these learners by different groups

Under the excel file "L1 Spa-L2 Chi 4 tasks" there are 8 figures:
Figure 1: L1 Spanish-L2 Chinese learners' data in the four tasks collected in April 2019.
Figure 2: L1 Spanish-L2 Chinese learners' data in the four tasks collected in Novmber 2019.
Figure 3: Spanish native speakers data in the four tasks collected in Novmber 2019.
Figure 4: Learners' ratings for each test items in the sentence interpretation task
Figure 5: Learners  ratings of acceptance and rejection.   
Figure 6: Descirptive statistics for mean acceptance and rejection of the sentence interpretation task
Figure 7: Mean scores of the fill-in-the-blanks task
Figure 8: Descriptive statistics of the fill-in-the-blanks task

Under the excel file "L1 Chi-L2 Spa 4 tasks" there are 8 figures:

Figure 1: L1 Chinese-L2 Spanish learners' data in the four tasks collected in Oct 2019.
Figure 2: Spanish native speakers data in the four tasks collected in Novmber 2019
Figure 3: Chinese native speakers data in the four tasks collected in Novmber 2019.
Figure 4: Descriptive statistics of learners' ratings for each test items in the sentence interpretation task
Figure 5: Descriptive statistics of learners mean scores of the fill-in-the-blanks task.  
Figure 6: Descirptive statistics for mean acceptance and rejection of the sentence interpretation task
Figure 7: Mean scores of the fill-in-the-blanks task.  


The following 8 files requires SPSS to view, which contains the mean socres of L1 Spanish-L2 Chinese learners in the sentence interpretation tas and the fill-in-the-blanks task, as well as statistical output for Repeated Measures Anova for these tasks:
"L1 Chi-L2 Spa cloze meanscores.sav"
"L1 Chi-L2 Spa cloze RM anova.spv"
"L1 Chi-L2 Spa sentence interpretation mean score.rar"
"L1 Chi-L2 Spa sentence interpretation RM anova.rar"
"L1 Spa-L2 Chi Cloze accuracy.sav"
"L1 Spa-L2 Chi Cloze RM anova.spv"
"L1 Spa-L2 Chi sentence interpretation mean score.rar"
"L1 Spa-L2 Chi sentence interpretation RM anova.rar"



Date of data collection: [2019 April-2019 Nobember]

Information about geographic location of data collection: 
Granada, Spain; Hebei province, China

Licence:
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Related projects/Funders:
Funders: Chinese Scholarship Council


Date that the file was created: November, 2021

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