The Effect of Exposure to Rhyming Words on the L2 Word Learning

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Title:	The Effect of Exposure to Rhyming Words on the L2 Word Learning
Authors:	Guo, Li-ning Hu, Chieh-fang
Contributors:	Taipei Municipal University of Education Taipei Municipal University of Education
Keywords:	Rhyming words Phonological priming Phonological similarity Vocabulary learning Second language acquisition
Date:	2010-06
Issue Date:	2012-11-30 20:53:34 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	臺北市立教育大學人文藝術學院英語教學系
Abstract:	Two experimental word-learning tasks were used to investigate the effect of exposure to rhyming words on L2 word learning among 120 fourth-grade Chinese-speaking children. The children were divided into four groups. Two groups were randomly assigned to a pre-exposure word-learning task and the other two a direct word-learning task. In the pre-exposure word-learning task, one group of children were told a story containing words which rhymed with the target words to be learned whereas the other group heard a story containing words that did not rhyme with the target words. In the direct word-learning task, one group directly learned three rhyming words without pre-exposure to rhyming words in a story and some directly learned three non-rhyming words. The results revealed that pre-exposure to rhyming words embedded in a story did not affect children’s new word learning. However, learning rhyming words together facilitated free recall and word-referent association in a production task. These results suggest that phonological manipulation in the rime unit of the new words provides a cue to the phonological shape of the new words, which facilitates the construction of phonological representations as well as the mapping of the representations to referents.
Relation:	北市大語文學報外國語文領域 4期頁47-68
Appears in Collections:	[School of Humanities and Arts] 北市大語文學報

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