This study presents a conceptual replication of Birulés et al.’s (2020, Experiment 2) investigation of native and nonnative listeners’ selective attention to a talker’s mouth with the goal of better understanding the potentially modulating role of proficiency in listeners’ reliance on audiovisual speech cues. Listeners’ eye gaze was recorded while watching two short videos. Findings from one of the videos replicated results from the original study, showing greater attention to the talker’s mouth among L2 than L1 listeners. In both videos, L2 proficiency modulated attention, with more fixations on the mouth among lower proficiency listeners, an effect predicted but not observed in the original study. Collectively, these laboratory-based findings highlight the role of visual speech cues in L2 listening and present evidence that listeners with more limited proficiency may be especially reliant on such cues. These observations warrant future investigations of the benefits of visual speech cues in instructional and assessment contexts.

本研究对 Birulés 等人（2020 年，实验 2）对母语和非母语听众对说话者嘴巴的选择性注意的调查进行了概念复制，目的是更好地理解熟练程度对听众对视听依赖的潜在调节作用言语提示。听众在观看两个短视频时的视线被记录下来。其中一个视频的结果复制了最初研究的结果，表明 L2 听众比 L1 听众更关注说话者的嘴巴。在这两个视频中，第二语言熟练程度调节了注意力，熟练程度较低的听众更多地关注嘴巴，这是原始研究中预测但未观察到的效果。总的来说，这些基于实验室的研究结果强调了视觉语音提示在第二语言听力中的作用，并提供了证据表明，熟练程度较有限的听众可能特别依赖此类提示。这些观察结果保证了未来对视觉语音提示在教学和评估环境中的好处的研究。