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Ming Li; Lubei Zhang – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined word class effects on Yi students' L2 Chinese word associations. 108 stimulus words, consisting of 36 nouns, 36 verbs, and 36 adjectives, were chosen from Corpus of Modern Chinese, with their frequencies and concreteness being strictly controlled. 80 students from grade 4 and 85 students from grade 10 finished the word…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 4, Grade 10
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Li, Juan; Jiang, Hongquan; Shang, Aihua; Chen, Jingli – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
Associative learning strategy (ALS) is an important means of acquiring vocabulary--especially in L2 learning. This study proposes a method to identify the associative learning mechanism based on complex network theory. First, a distributed association strategy (DAS) for the associative learning of L2 learners based on distributed language learning…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary, Learning Strategies
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Wang, Chen; Yang, Jingjing – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study intends to find out how the retention of new vocabulary items could be affected by the item type (collocations versus single words), association strength between collocates and the collocate-node relationship. 101 Chinese EFL learners encountered the new items in paired-associate format. Participants were assigned to three groups:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Liu, Chun-yan; Jiao, Yan; Qiu, Wen-ting – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
Despite extensive use of online language learning during the pandemic of COVID, there is insufficient research on what factors influence students' foreign language achievements in online learning conditions. This article investigated the roles of language aptitude and online self-regulated learning in foreign language achievement in mainland…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition, Online Courses
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Sun, Chen; Wei, Linlin; Young, Richard F. – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Within the context of an ongoing reform of the curriculum for English as a foreign language (EFL) in China, we present the implicit association test (IAT) as a new way to measure Chinese EFL teachers' implicit attitudes to a communicative language teaching (CLT) curriculum and to compare their attitudes to traditional language teaching (TLT)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Teng, Feng – TESL-EJ, 2016
The present study was conducted in the context of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) with the purpose of assessing the roles of breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge in academic listening comprehension. The Vocabulary Size Test (VST, Nation & Beglar, 2007) and the Word Associates Test (WAT, Read, 2004) were administered to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yang, Jiongjiong; Zhao, Peng; Zhu, Zijian; Mecklinger, Axel; Fang, Zhiyong; Li, Han – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
There is an intensive debate on whether memory for serial order is symmetric. The objective of this study was to explore whether associative asymmetry is modulated by memory task (recognition vs. cued recall). Participants were asked to memorize word triples (Experiments 1-2) or pairs (Experiments 3-6) during the study phase. They then recalled…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Task Analysis, Recognition (Psychology), Cues
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Zhang, Min – English Language Teaching, 2014
Vocabulary is the basis of any language learning. To many Chinese non-English majors it is difficult to memorize English words. This paper applied associative method in presenting new words to them. It is found that associative method did receive a better result both in short-term and long-term retention of English words. Compared with the…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yin, Zhaochun – English Language Teaching, 2013
Lexical inferencing is referred to as guessing the meaning of an unknown word using available linguistic and other clues. It is a primary lexical processing strategy to tackle unknown words while reading. This study aims to explore the clue use of Chinese EFL learners in inferring the meaning of unknown word in reading. Two types of introspective…
Descriptors: Inferences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Asians
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Li, Degao; Zhang, Xiannv; Wang, Guoying – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
In the development of their semantic networks, bilinguals can be influenced by the levels of proficiency they have in their second language (L2) and by the age at which they acquired the language. Two exercises, one in word association and one in forced-choice decision-making, were used to test whether the pattern of relative awareness of thematic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Performance Factors, High School Students, Native Language
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Schmitt, Norbert; Ng, Janice Wun Ching; Garras, John – Language Testing, 2011
Although the Word Associates Format (WAF) is becoming more frequently used as a depth-of-knowledge measure, relatively little validation has been carried out on it. This report of two validation studies tackles various important WAF issues yet to be satisfactorily resolved. Study 1 conducted introspective interviews regarding students' WAF…
Descriptors: Scoring, Vocabulary Development, Associative Learning, Validity
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Investigates the role of morphological structure in the representation and processing of Mandarin Chinese compounds. Results provide evidence against single-layer, morpheme-based models of the Chinese mental lexicon, pointing instead to a two-layer, whole-word and morphemic model (the Multi-Level Cluster Representation Model). (67 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics