Cross-Language Transfer of Insight into the Structure of Compound Words

Autor/inn/en	Zhang, Jie; Anderson, Richard C.; Li, Hong; Dong, Qiong; Wu, Xinchun; Zhang, Yan
Titel	Cross-Language Transfer of Insight into the Structure of Compound Words
Quelle	In: Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 23 (2010) 3-4, S.311-336 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0922-4777
DOI	10.1007/s11145-009-9205-7
Schlagwörter	Morphology (Languages); Grade 5; Elementary School Students; Native Speakers; Chinese; English; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Reading Ability; Transfer of Training; Native Language Instruction; Foreign Countries; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Morphology; Morphologie; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Muttersprachler; China; Chinesen; English language; Englisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; Ausland
Abstract	Cross-language transfer of awareness of the structure of compound words was investigated among native speakers of Chinese who were learning English as a second language. Chinese fifth graders received instruction in the morphology of four types of compound words in either Chinese or English. They then completed both the Chinese and English versions of a compound word structure analogy task. Compared with children who received no instruction, children who received instruction in Chinese were able to transfer knowledge they had acquired of compound types in Chinese to comparable types in English. Reverse transfer from English to Chinese was found among children with high reading proficiency. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10