Girl--Lass or Curl? Word Associations in Second Language Learners

Autor/inn/en	Norrby, Catrin; Hakansson, Gisela
Titel	Girl--Lass or Curl? Word Associations in Second Language Learners
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30 (2007) 2, S.22 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
DOI	10.2104/aral0722
Schlagwörter	Control Groups; Associative Learning; Foreign Countries; Vocabulary Development; Native Speakers; Learning Processes; Language Processing; Swedish; Educational Environment; Cultural Context; College Students; Language Tests; Australia; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Wortschatzarbeit; Muttersprachler; Learning process; Lernprozess; Sprachverarbeitung; Schwedisch; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Collegestudent; Language test; Sprachtest; Australien; Schweden
Abstract	One of the ways to investigate the mental lexicon is to use word association tests. Empirical studies comparing associations by children and adults have indicated a tendency for children to give syntagmatic responses, whereas adults give paradigmatic responses. In order to investigate lexical development in L2 acquisition of Swedish we collected data from two groups of students, one in Malmo, Sweden and one in Melbourne. Part of the Melbourne group also took the association test in their L1 six months later. Native speakers were used as a control group. The results demonstrate that learners in general tend to focus more on form than content compared to native speakers. This trend was particularly strong for the L2 group in Melbourne who also exhibited more variation in their responses compared to the L2 group in Sweden and the NS control group. (Contains 7 tables, 2 figures, and 2 endnotes.) (As Provided).
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