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The role of oral vocabulary when L2 speakers read novel words : A complex word training study
Behzadnia, Ali Wegener, Signy Bürki, Audrey Beyersmann, Elisabeth
Behzadnia, Ali
Wegener, Signy
Bürki, Audrey
Beyersmann, Elisabeth
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
Date
2023
Type
Journal article
Journal
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Book
Volume
27
Issue
3
Page Range
388-399
Article Number
ACU Department
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
Notes
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.