Bilingual Students' Developing Understanding of Morphologically Complex Cognates. Technical Report No. 567.

Autor/inn/en	Hancin-Bhatt, Barbara; Nagy, William
Institution	Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading.
Titel	Bilingual Students' Developing Understanding of Morphologically Complex Cognates. Technical Report No. 567.
Quelle	(1993), (41 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Age Differences; Bilingual Students; Difficulty Level; Elementary School Students; Elementary Secondary Education; English (Second Language); Grade 4; Grade 6; Grade 8; Hispanic Americans; Hispanic American Students; Interlanguage; Language Processing; Language Research; Morphology (Languages); Second Language Learning; Second Languages; Secondary School Students; Spanish; Transfer of Training; Vocabulary Development; Word Recognition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Schwierigkeitsgrad; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Zielsprache; Sprachverarbeitung; Sprachforschung; Morphology; Morphologie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Sekundarschüler; Spanisch; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Wortschatzarbeit; Worterkennung
Abstract	This study investigates the development of two levels of morphological knowledge that contribute to Spanish-English bilingual students' ability to recognize cognates: the ability to recognize a cognate stem within a suffixed English word, and knowledge of systematic relationships between Spanish and English suffixes (e.g., the fact that English words ending in "-ty" often have a Spanish cognate ending in "-dad". A total of 196 Latino bilingual students in fourth, sixth, and eighth grades, were asked to give the Spanish equivalent for English words, some of which had derivational and inflectional suffixes. Results indicate that students' ability to translate cognates increases with age above and beyond any increase in their vocabulary knowledge in Spanish and English. There was also marked growth in students' knowledge of systematic relationships between Spanish and English suffixes. Students recognized cognate stems of suffixed words more easily than non-cognate stems, suggesting that in closely-related languages such as Spanish and English, cross-language transfer may play a role not just in recognizing individual words but also in the learning of derivational morphology. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC