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Project

Structural elaboration techniques in L2 vocabulary learning: estimating the effect of metalinguistic contemplation on memory representation
Code
01N02514
Duration
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language acquisition
Keywords
retention vocabulary elaboration
 
Project description
 

This research project aims to take the measure of what contemplation of the form-meaning fit of new words can do to foster new L2 word learning. Form-meaning motivation means that a retrospective explanation can be sought as to why a linguistic unit has come in a particular form or carries a particular meaning. These form-meaning associations has been shown to facilitate the retrieval of new words.