复杂式单词听写任务对大学英语词汇习得的作用

听写既是一种语言测试方法也是一种教学手段.单词听写作为一种传统的教学手段,曾被广泛地运用于我国外语教学中.本研究改良了传统的单词听写任务,通过实证研究求证该任务对大学英语词汇习得的作用.结果表明,复杂式单词听写任务中,学习者的学习过程具有"曲折反复,总体上升"的路径特点,高水平学习者呈现出持续进步趋势,低水平学习者呈阶...     

英语隐喻对当前英语词汇教学中词义扩展的影响

本文对隐喻的含义进行了界定,分析了英语隐喻认知对英语词汇教学的影响,阐述了英语词汇语义扩展的原理,进而对英语隐喻在词汇教学中的应用进行了研究。     

词源策略在英语词汇习得中的应用研究

词汇习得是学习英语的基础,学习者经常被复杂的词汇来源所困扰,主要是英语词汇发展过程中流入了很多外来语。从词源学角度出发,追溯词汇的来源和发展,可以促进语言和文化学习的有效性。本文基于词源学理论,引入词汇词源学策略,研究其在英语词汇习得中的应用,以此优化学习者策略,提高词汇习得效率。     

母语对二语习得在英语教学方面的影响

英语作为一门第二外语在习得的过程当中会受到诸多因素的影响,其中母语是一个重要的影响因子。本文从母语对二语习得的影响入手,探讨其影响的具体方面及今后英语教学的应对策略。     

Morphological awareness in Spanish-speaking English language learners: within and cross-language effects on word reading

This study investigated within and cross-language effects of morphological awareness on word reading among Spanish-speaking children who were English Language Learners. Participants were 97 Spanish-speaking children in grade 4 and grade 7. Morphological awareness in Spanish and in English was evaluated with two measures of derivational morphology. The results showed that Spanish morphological awareness contributed unique variance to Spanish word reading after controlling for other reading related variables. English morphological awareness also explained unique variance in English word reading. Cross-linguistic transfer of morphological awareness was observed from Spanish to English, but not from English to Spanish. These results suggest that morphological awareness is important for word reading in Spanish, a shallow orthography with a complex morphological system. They also suggest that morphological awareness developed in children’s L1 is associated with word reading in English, their L2.     

A longitudinal analysis of English language learners’ word decoding and reading comprehension

This longitudinal investigation examined word decoding and reading comprehension measures from first grade through sixth grade for a sample of Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs). The sample included 261 children (average age of 7.2 years; 120 boys; 141 girls) at the initial data collection in first grade. The ELLs’ word decoding and reading comprehension scores showed quadratic growth over the course of the study. The sample’s reading comprehension, but not their word decoding, began to fall behind the normative sample starting in the third grade. Phonological awareness, rapid automatic naming (RAN), and oral language measures were used as predictors and correlated with growth rates in a manner consistent with past research.     

克拉申的二语习得理论对儿童英语词汇教学的指导

中国加入世贸组织,与世界经济往来日益密切,英语的学习越来越重要。因此我国儿童很早就进入英语培训学校学习。因而对于影响儿童二语习得因素的研究就至关重要。而克拉申的二语习得理论对少儿英语的学习起着重大作用。这里我们用克拉申的假说谈谈如何促进儿童快速有效的记忆单词。     

不同任务投入量对英语词汇习得的影响

在英语学习中,词汇的掌握起着重要的作用。不同的学习任务会对词汇附带习得产生不同的影响。任务投入量越大,词汇习得和保持的效果越好。本文基于"投入量假设"这一基本原理来探讨在阅读中,不同的任务投入量对词汇附带习得的影响。     

语境与第二语言词汇学习

语境条件与无语境条件是第二语言词汇学习中最为常见的两种学习条件。二者孰更适于词汇学习一直是研究者争论的焦点。本文拟对近年来该领域主要的研究结果做简要的梳理,并对需要深入的问题做初步的探讨。     

英语词汇习得中隐喻思维的构建

隐喻不仅仅是一种语言现象,而且是一种思维方式,是人们认识和了解世界的重要工具.隐喻作为认知和语言的纽带,在词汇学习中扮演着不可或缺的角色.在英语词汇习得中构建隐喻思维,无论是理论上还是实践上都具有"革命性"的意义,它能帮助学习者在词汇学习中获得重大突破.     

The contribution of vocabulary knowledge and spelling to the reading comprehension of adolescents who are and are not English language learners

This study examined the contributions of vocabulary and spelling to the reading comprehension of students in grades 6–10 who were and were not classified as English language learners. Results indicate that vocabulary accounted for greater between-grade differences and unique variance (ΔR ² = .11–.31) in comprehension as compared to spelling (ΔR ² = .01–.09). However, the contribution of spelling to comprehension was higher in the upper grade levels included in this cross-sectional analysis and functioned as a mediator of the impact of vocabulary knowledge at all levels. The direct effect of vocabulary was strong but lower in magnitude at each successive grade level from .58 in grade 6 to .41 in grade 10 while the indirect effect through spelling increased in magnitude at each successive grade level from .09 in grade 6 to .16 in grade 10. There were no significant differences between the language groups in the magnitude of the indirect impact, suggesting both groups of students relied more on both sources of lexical information in higher grades as compared to students in lower grades.     

新时代网络语言对汉语词汇的影响

近年来,随着科技信息的不断发展,互联网迎来了更深层次的发展。如今各种机遇信息时代的媒介形式,引导着网络文化的发展,网络的语言形式对于汉语词汇的影响也越来越明显。网络语言的快速发展,也推动了现代汉语词汇的拓展。然而,在这样的过程中,我们必须清醒的认识到网络语言对汉语词汇带来的积极影响和消极作用。本文笔者就当前网络语言的特征及其产生的,结合汉语词汇的发展,剖析现代网络语言与汉语词汇发展的相互关系,希望对汉语词汇的健康、稳定发展提供一些的参考和帮助。     

Development of academic language comprehension of German monolinguals and dual language learners

Acquiring academic language proficiency is considered especially challenging for dual language learners (DLLs), yet research on potential differences in the development of academic language skills of DLLs and their monolingual peers is scarce. Based on a repeated-measures design with two starting cohorts, the present study examines the development of academic language comprehension of German monolinguals and DLLs from Grade 2 to 3 and from Grade 3 to 4 (initial N = 560; M_age = 8.87 years, SD_age = .73). When controlling for students’ gender, socioeconomic and educational family background as well as general language skills, German monolinguals showed larger learning gains in academic language comprehension than DLLs from Grade 2 to 3, but not from Grade 3 to 4.     

The effects of incidental teaching on vocabulary acquisition by young children

The effects on vocabulary acquisition of child-initiated versus adult-initiated instances of adult labeling were studied. 16 monolingual, English-speaking preschool children were exposed to a Spanish-speaking adult. In order to have access to toys placed out of their reach, children had to request the toys in Spanish. For the experimental group, adult labeling occurred when the children expressed interest in the toy. Control group children were yoked temporally to experimental group children for the purpose of adult labeling. Thus, adult labeling for the control group was randomly related to the children's expressions of interest. Although both groups of children learned some Spanish words, children in the experimental group produced significantly more Spanish words during the training sessions and showed superior performance on posttraining tests of Spanish production. Levels of comprehension of the Spanish words were equivalent for both groups. Results are interpreted in the context of the literature on "incidental teaching" and are viewed as demonstrating the critical role in language acquisition of the timing of exposure to language models.     

学习者的认知风格与二语词汇习得的相关性研究

学习者的词汇习得受到多方面因素的影响,其中认知风格是最为受到关注的因素之一。本研究发现,场独立型的学生更倾向于习得词汇的方式去学习,而场依存的学生们相反。因此,在外语教学中,针对不同的认知风格的学生要采取不同的教学方式,提高教学质量,促进二语学习。     

英语词汇附带习得的影响因素及其研究

词汇学习在任何语言学习中都至关重要,英语学习也不例外。许多研究者对词汇附带习得都有深入的研究,特别是近几年,对其进行的实证研究越来越多,而研究的基础则是影响词汇附带习得的主要因素。文章从国内外对词汇附带习得的研究回顾、影响词汇附带习得的因素等方面进行探讨。     

Influence of word meaning on the acquisition of a reading vocabulary in second-grade children

The acquisition of a reading vocabulary for abstract and concrete words was examined in 62 second-grade children. Words had been learned as part of a basal reader program or as part of outside reading. Word recognition speed and reading accuracy were examined for abstract and concrete words using lexical decision and word naming tasks. The size of the concreteness effect was similar for both processing tasks. In neither task did concreteness influence reaction times, but abstract words were read with less accuracy than concrete words in both tasks. Further, these concreteness effects in reading accuracy were larger for words that were part of a basal reading program than for words acquired during free reading. We conclude that word meaning influences the entry of words at a time when children are developing a sizeable reading vocabulary.     

Bilingual PA and its influence on biliteracy for Korean English as a foreign language learners

This study examines the relationship between phonological awareness (PA) in the two languages of Korean English as a foreign language learning children in relation to L1 characteristics and school experiences, and its predictive role in word decoding skills in each language. Seventy-two 5?C6-year-old Korean children who had attended English-medium preschools and kindergartens for at least 18?months were tested on a range of PA and emergent literacy skill measures in both Korean (L1) and English (L2). The findings indicate that the phonological representations of the participants reflect more of the L1, rather than school language, characteristics. In addition, L1 PA, syllable and phoneme awareness in particular, was predictive of L2 decoding abilities after accounting for L2 PA and emergent literacy skills. The results are discussed in terms of language-specific L1 phonological and orthographic characteristics, as well as their L2-learning contexts.