The importance of increased processing demands in the design of Elicited Imitation tests

This study is a conceptual replication of Ellis’ ‘Measuring implicit and explicit knowledge second language: A psychometric study’, published in Studies Second Language Acquisition (2005), aiming to establish the importance including belief statements (hypothesized increase processing demands) design Elicited Imitation (EI) tests. In between-groups comparison, 103 participants completed one two versions Erlam’s EI test (2006), which required make ‘belief’ judgement, did not. Both contained ungrammatical stimuli. Participants were scored for repetition grammatical stimuli correction An Exit questionnaire aimed how aware they also timed grammaticality judgement (TGJT), an untimed (UGJT), metalinguistic (MKT), another designed as measure global proficiency. Performance on each version was examined relationship performance these measures. There no variation between either version. The article underscores need ongoing research investigating features