The Effect of Persian L2 Learners’ Proficiency Level on their Degree of Observing Subjacency in L2

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This experimental study examined how L2 learners’ L2 proficiency level affected their performance in GJ tasks while rendering WH-questions using a repeated measures design. Participants included 60 female Persian EFL participants from the Islamic Azad University - Khorasgan Branch - at two levels of English proficiency (i.e. High- and Low-Intermediate levels). The instruments (i.e. explicit written, implicit written, oral stimulus, and no stimulus GJ tasks) involved rendering different cases of subjacency in four consecutive time settings for four weeks per each GJ task by each participant. The results revealed that L2 proficiency level is of no significant effects on the L2 learners’ performance on WH-questions.