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This study examines the relationship between learners’ production of modified output and their working memory (WM) capacity. The task‐based interactions of 42 college‐level, native English‐speaking learners of Spanish as a foreign language were examined. A relationship was found between learners’ WM test scores and their tendency to modify output. Specifically, greater processing capacity was related to greater production of modified output during interaction.
Mackey et al. (Sat,) studied this question.