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This paper discusses the interpretation of reflexive anaphora in VP-elliptical sentences by L2 learners of English in Korea. Thirteen intermediate learners, 13 advanced learners(experimental group) and 10 English native speakers(control group) participated in this research which was designed to investigate the effect of minimal process and the context effect when L2 learners choose the sloppy/strict reading. The task consists of 12 experimental sentences in a null context, 12 experimental sentences in a referential context eliciting the strict reading and 12 experimental sentences in a non-referential context. The results showed that these respondents’ interpretation of reflexive anaphora in VP-elliptical sentences was constrained by the minimal processing effort and contextual effects of Relevance Theory.