Adults' and 8-Year-Olds' Learning in a Foreign Word Repetition Task: Similar and Different.

Autor/inn/en	Service, Elisabet; Yli-Kaitala, Hely; Maury, Sini; Kim, Jeong-Young
Titel	Adults' and 8-Year-Olds' Learning in a Foreign Word Repetition Task: Similar and Different.
Quelle	In: Language learning, 64 (2014) 2, S. 215-246Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Abbildungen 3; Anmerkungen 1; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333; 1467-9922
DOI	10.1111/lang.12051
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Kind; Altersstufe; Spracherwerb; Fremdsprache; Koreanisch; Erwachsener
Abstract	Although the significance of age in second language acquisition is one of the most hotly debated issues in the field, very few studies have directly addressed age differences in the language learning process. The present study investigated learning in a foreign-word repetition task. Young Finnish adults and 8-year-olds repeated back Korean words. Some words occurred once whereas others occurred five times. After the session, a surprise old/new recognition task was administered. Both groups' repetition accuracy improved for recurring but not nonrecurring words. Latencies got shorter for all words. The groups were reliably able to recognize recurring but not nonrecurring words. However, the adults performed substantially better in this memory task with an explicit component. No advantages for children were detected. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2