This study examined the extent to which L2 writers with varied working memory display differential pausing and revision behaviors at different periods during writing. The participants were 30 advanced Chinese L2 users of English, who wrote an argumentative essay. While composing, participants’ keystrokes and eye-gaze movements were recorded to capture their pausing, revision, and eye-gaze behaviors. The working memory battery included tests of phonological and visual short-term memory and executive functions. We divided the writing process into five equal periods. The results revealed that participants’ pausing and revision patterns were consistent with previous findings that planning, linguistic encoding, and monitoring processes dominate the initial, middle, and later composing periods, respectively. Various working memory components had differential effects on pausing depending on period, largely reflecting the predictions of Kellogg’s (1996, 2001) model. However, we identified no differences in the temporal distribution of revision behaviors contingent on working memory.

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探索工作记忆与二语写作期间暂停和修改行为的时间分布的关系

这项研究考察了具有不同工作记忆的二语作家在写作过程中不同时期表现出不同的停顿和修改行为的程度。参与者是 30 名高级英语二语使用者，他们写了一篇议论文。在创作时，参与者的击键和眼睛注视运动被记录下来，以捕捉他们的停顿、修改和眼睛注视行为。工作记忆电池包括语音和视觉短期记忆以及执行功能的测试。我们将写作过程分为五个相等的时期。结果显示，参与者的暂停和修改模式与之前的发现一致，即计划、语言编码和监控过程分别主导着初始、中期和后期的作曲阶段。不同的工作记忆成分对不同时期的暂停有不同的影响，很大程度上反映了 Kellogg (1996, 2001) 模型的预测。然而，我们发现根据工作记忆的复习行为的时间分布没有差异。