Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children.

Autor: Salomé F; Univ Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193, Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab), 59000 Lille, France., Commissaire E; Université de Strasbourg, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (LPC), 67000 Strasbourg, France., Casalis S; Univ Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193, Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab), 59000 Lille, France. Electronic address: severine.casalis@univ-lille.fr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of experimental child psychology [J Exp Child Psychol] 2024 Oct; Vol. 246, pp. 105978. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 17.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105978
Abstrakt: Recent studies have shown that children benefit from orthography when learning new words. This orthographic facilitation can be explained by the fact that written language acts as an anchor device due to the transient nature of spoken language. There is also a close and reciprocal relationship between spoken and written language. Second-language word learning poses specific challenges in terms of orthography-phonology mappings that do not fully overlap with first-language mappings. The current study aimed to investigate whether orthographic information facilitates second-language word learning in developing readers, namely third and fifth graders. In a first experiment French children learned 16 German words, and in a second experiment they learned 24 German words. Word learning was assessed by picture designation, spoken word recognition, and orthographic choice. In both experiments, orthographic facilitation was found in both less and more advanced readers. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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