CONTEXTUAL WORD LEARNING DURING READING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE

Word Recognition, Psycholinguistics and Teaching Second Language Reading

Becoming literate while learning a second language - practicing reading aloud

The DigLin project aims at providing concrete solutions for low-literate and illiterate adults who have to learn a second language (L2). Besides learning the L2, they thus also have to acquire literacy in the L2. To allow intensive practice and feedback in reading aloud, appropriate speech technology is developed for the four targeted languages: Dutch, English, German and Finnish. Since relativ...

Oral reading fluency in second language reading

This study investigated the role of oral reading fluency in second language reading. Two hundred and fifty-five high school students in South Korea were assessed on three oral reading fluency (ORF) variables and six other reading predictors. The relationship between ORF and other reading predictors was examined through an exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Next, the contribution of ORF to silen...

First Language Activation during Second Language Lexical Processing in a Sentential Context

 Lexicalization-patterns, the way words are mapped onto concepts, differ from one language      to another. This study investigated the influence of first language (L1) lexicalization patterns on the processing of second language (L2) words in sentential contexts by both less proficient and more proficient Persian learners of English. The focus was on cases where two different senses of a polys...

Semantic category effects in second language word learning

The present study addresses a long-standing assumption in the field of applied linguistics: that presenting new second language (L2) vocabulary in semantically grouped sets is an effective method of teaching. Participants learned 32 new L2 labels for concepts from four different semantic categories in either a related or unrelated condition. At test, participants translated words in both transl...