The role of oral vocabulary when L2 speakers read novel words : A complex word training study
Journal article
Behzadnia, Ali, Wegener, Signy, Bürki, Audrey and Beyersmann, Elisabeth. (2023). The role of oral vocabulary when L2 speakers read novel words : A complex word training study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000627
Authors | Behzadnia, Ali, Wegener, Signy, Bürki, Audrey and Beyersmann, Elisabeth |
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Abstract | The present study asked whether oral vocabulary training can facilitate reading in a second language (L2). Fifty L2 speakers of English received oral training over three days on complex novel words, with predictable and unpredictable spellings, composed of novel stems and existing suffixes (i.e., vishing, vishes, vished). After training, participants read the novel word stems for the first time (i.e., trained and untrained), embedded in sentences, and their eye movements were monitored. The eye-tracking data revealed shorter looking times for trained than untrained stems, and for stems with predictable than unpredictable spellings. In contrast to monolingual speakers of English, the interaction between training and spelling predictability was not significant, suggesting that L2 speakers did not generate orthographic skeletons that were robust enough to affect their eye-movement behaviour when seeing the trained novel words for the first time in print. |
Keywords | bilingualism; eye-tracking; morphological processing; oral novel word training |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition |
Journal citation | pp. 1-12 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
ISSN | 1469-1841 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000627 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 1-12 |
Funder | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | In press |
Publication dates | |
Online | 25 Sep 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 24 Jul 2023 |
Deposited | 12 Oct 2023 |
ARC Funded Research | This output has been funded, wholly or partially, under the Australian Research Council Act 2001 |
Grant ID | DE190100850 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8zv97/the-role-of-oral-vocabulary-when-l2-speakers-read-novel-words-a-complex-word-training-study
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