The Distinctiveness of Emotion Words: Does It Hold for Foreign Language Learners? The Case of Arab EFL Learners

Autor/inn/en	El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Altarriba, Jeanette
Titel	The Distinctiveness of Emotion Words: Does It Hold for Foreign Language Learners? The Case of Arab EFL Learners
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47 (2018) 5, S.1133-1149 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-018-9583-6
Schlagwörter	Language Usage; Emotional Response; Second Language Learning; Semitic Languages; English (Second Language); Bilingualism; Recall (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachgebrauch; Emotionales Verhalten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Arabisch; Hebräisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Bilingualismus; Abberufung
Abstract	Empirical evidence has recently been provided for the distinctiveness of emotion words as compared to abstract and concrete words for monolinguals, calling for a reconsideration of the relation between emotion and language. The present study investigates whether the distinctiveness of emotion words among monolinguals holds for foreign language learners. To this end, three groups (n = 120 per group) of late Arabic-English bilinguals who learned English as a foreign language completed tasks including free recall, rating, and discrete word association. One group completed the tasks in Arabic while the other two groups, representing two levels of foreign language exposure, completed the tasks in English. Planned comparisons indicated the distinctiveness of emotion words in the participants' first and foreign languages in the free recall and rating tasks while no significant differences were found in the word association task. The results are discussed in light of the existing literature and relevant theoretical models. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01