The Role of Morphological Awareness in the Incidental Learning of Chinese Characters among CSL Learners

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Yanhui; Li, Ruyu
Titel	The Role of Morphological Awareness in the Incidental Learning of Chinese Characters among CSL Learners
Quelle	In: Language Awareness, 25 (2016) 3, S.179-196 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-8416
DOI	10.1080/09658416.2016.1162167
Schlagwörter	Role; Morphology (Languages); Second Language Learning; Language Proficiency; Orthographic Symbols; Written Language; Metalinguistics; Incidental Learning; Vocabulary Development; Mandarin Chinese; Foreign Students; College Students; Second Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; Asians; Task Analysis; Language Tests; Reading Tests; Accuracy; Statistical Analysis; Correlation; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rollen; Morphology; Morphologie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Geschriebene Sprache; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Inzidentelles Lernen; Wortschatzarbeit; Collegestudent; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Ausland; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Aufgabenanalyse; Language test; Sprachtest; Lesetest; Statistische Analyse; Korrelation
Abstract	This study investigates the role of morphological awareness in the incidental learning of Mandarin Chinese characters among Chinese as second language (CSL) learners. Participants of the study were 20 college-level international students, uniformly Thai in language background, enrolled to study CSL at Southwest University, Chongqing, China. The research questions were investigated through two experiments, one administered to measure their L2 morphological proficiency in Chinese and the other to pinpoint the overall contribution of morphological awareness in incidental Chinese character learning through extensive reading as well as how such a contribution may vary when different dimensions of word knowledge are concerned. The results indicate that while higher L2 language proficiency can in general correspond to higher L2 morphological awareness, which in turn benefits the incidental learning of new words, morphological awareness plays a stronger and more explicit role in facilitating the incidental Chinese character learning for intermediate learners relative to advanced learners. In addition, intermediate learners, compared to advanced learners, tend to rely more heavily on character-internal and orthographical information when learning novel characters. (As Provided).
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