Remembering Foreign Language Vocabulary

Acoustic and Semantic Parameters

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4887673
AutoresGrant H Henning, Grant Henning (University of California, Los Angeles, autor correspondente)
Ano1973
Volume23
Fascículo2
Páginas185-196
Data de publicação1973-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage Learning (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-1770.1973.tb00654.x
OpenAlexW2018663439
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas19

To determine whether second-language learners encode vocabulary in memory by families of associated meanings and/or interrelated sounds (acoustic and semantic encoding clusters), and to ascertain the correlation between such encoding and language proficiency, 75 students were administered tests of STM vocabulary recognition and language proficiency. In experiment 1, 59 Ss were selected from 5 groups: 1 native speaker group and a group from each of the 4 proficiency levels for foreign students studying English as a second language. In a second study to cross-validate the experiment, 16 native speakers and students of Persian as a second language were tested.Results indicated that second-language learners do encode vocabulary into acoustic and semantic memory clusters; semantic and acoustic recognition errors were significantly more frequent than nonrelated errors (p < .01). Learners at a low-proficiency level appeared to register vocabulary in memory more by sound similarities than by related meanings; high-proficiency learners relied on associated meanings rather than sound similarities. Significant positive correlations (r= .612, .675) were found between proficiency and percentage of semantic errors. Significant negative correlations (r=−.573, −.675) were found between proficiency and the percentage of acoustic errors

Cognitive psychology · Encoding (memory) · First language · Foreign language · Language proficiency · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Semantics (computer science) · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Speech and dialogue systems · Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes