Linguistic Distance Effect on Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Morphological Awareness

Autor/in	Zhang, Dongbo
Titel	Linguistic Distance Effect on Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Morphological Awareness
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 34 (2013) 5, S.917-942 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716412000070
Schlagwörter	Transfer of Training; Native Language; Morphology (Languages); Metalinguistics; Chinese; Inferences; Grade 6; Elementary School Students; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Language Tests; Vocabulary; Psycholinguistics; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Morphology; Morphologie; Metalanguage; Metasprache; China; Chinesen; Inference; Inferenz; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Language test; Sprachtest; Wortschatz; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	This study examined transfer facilitation effect of first language morphological awareness on second language lexical inference ability among Grade 6 Chinese-speaking English as a foreign language learners in China. A set of paper and pencil tests was administered to measure children's morphological awareness and lexical inference ability in both Chinese and English. Results showed that the contribution of Chinese morphological awareness to English morphological awareness was larger for compound words than for derived words. In addition, the indirect effect of Chinese compound awareness on English compound word meaning inference was significant, but that of Chinese derivational awareness on English derived word meaning inference did not achieve significance. These findings confirmed that cross-linguistic transfer of Chinese morphological awareness was responsive to the linguistic distance between Chinese and English. (As Provided).
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