Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Second Language Lexical Acquisition

博士论文研究：第二语言词汇习得的心理语言学研究

• 批准号: 0111733
• 负责人: Judith Kroll
• 金额: $ 1.17万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-08-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0111733&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Psycholinguistic; Investigation

ABSTRACTKroll & Sunderman 0111733With National Science Foundation support, Ms. Gretchen Sunderman will collect data for her doctoral dissertation under the direction of Dr. Judith Kroll. Her research will investigate the development of second language lexical fluency. Although it is common practice to have second language learners attempt to suppress their first language in classroom contexts, recent psycholinguistic research suggests that it is impossible to do so. Words in the first language are active and compete for selection even when learners intend to read or speak in the second language only. Ms. Sunderman's experiments will include three groups of native speakers of English at different stages of second language proficiency in Spanish. Her goal is to examine the activation of the first language as learners acquire Spanish. One set of experiments will examine the first language in comprehension, and another set of experiments will examine it in spoken production. Participants will also take a battery of individual differences tests in their first language. Comparisons of these second language learners to monolinguals matched on the individual differences measures will provide an examination of some cognitive consequences of second language learning for first language performance.This research is important for several reasons. First, it will advance our understanding of the cognitive processes involved in second language lexical acquisition. Second, it will advance our understanding of cross-language competition at different levels of second language proficiency. Finally, in examining differences in individuals' ability to suppress the first language during second language comprehension and production, this research will inform second language pedagogy and enhance the success of learning and teaching of second language vocabulary.

摘要Kroll & Sunderman 0111733在国家科学基金会的支持下，Gretchen Sunderman 女士将在 Judith Kroll 博士的指导下收集其博士论文的数据。她的研究将调查第二语言词汇流畅性的发展。尽管让第二语言学习者试图在课堂环境中抑制他们的第一语言是常见的做法，但最近的心理语言学研究表明这是不可能的。即使学习者只想用第二语言阅读或说话，第一语言中的单词也会活跃并竞争选择。桑德曼女士的实验将包括三组以英语为母语、处于西班牙语第二语言熟练程度不同阶段的人。她的目标是检查学习者学习西班牙语时第一语言的激活情况。一组实验将检查第一语言的理解能力，另一组实验将检查其口语表达能力。参与者还将用他们的母语进行一系列个体差异测试。将这些第二语言学习者与单语学习者在个体差异测量上进行比较，将提供第二语言学习对第一语言表现的一些认知后果的检验。这项研究很重要，原因有几个。首先，它将增进我们对第二语言词汇习得认知过程的理解。其次，它将增进我们对不同第二语言水平的跨语言竞争的理解。最后，通过检查个体在第二语言理解和产生过程中抑制第一语言的能力的差异，这项研究将为第二语言教学提供信息，并提高第二语言词汇学习和教学的成功率。