The Contribution of Morphological Awareness to Lexical Inferencing in L2 Chinese: Comparing More-Skilled and Less-Skilled Learners

Autor/in	Chen, Tianxu
Titel	The Contribution of Morphological Awareness to Lexical Inferencing in L2 Chinese: Comparing More-Skilled and Less-Skilled Learners
Quelle	In: Foreign Language Annals, 51 (2018) 4, S.816-830 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0015-718X
DOI	10.1111/flan.12365
Schlagwörter	Morphology (Languages); Inferences; Second Language Learning; Chinese; Cues; Language Skills; Foreign Countries; Vocabulary Development; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; Inference; Inferenz; Zweitsprachenerwerb; China; Chinesen; Stichwort; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Ausland; Wortschatzarbeit
Abstract	Learners' ability to infer unknown words' meanings (lexical inferencing) plays a key role in word knowledge development for second language (L2) learners. It has recently been acknowledged that learners' sensitivity to word-internal structures (morphological awareness) makes an important contribution to L2 lexical inferencing. However, it remains unclear whether the contribution of morphological awareness to lexical inferencing is affected by L2 learner-related factors (e.g., language skills). Data obtained from five paper-pencil tasks in Chinese for 73 L2 learners who studied Chinese for two semesters in China showed that (1) for more-skilled learners, morphological awareness significantly contributed to lexical inferencing with and without contextual cues, whereas no significant relationships existed between morphological awareness and lexical inferencing for less-skilled learners; and (2) L2 learners' morphological awareness does not equally facilitate lexical inferencing due to a possible threshold of linguistic knowledge. The findings have implications for learners' success in inferring the meanings of unknown words (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01