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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811128303321

Titolo

Applying priming research to L2 learning, teaching and research : insights from psycholinguistics / / edited by Pavel Trofimovich, Kim McDonough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

90-272-8692-2

9786613051424

1-283-05142-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 254 p. : ill

Collana

Language learning & language teaching ; ; v. 30

Altri autori (Persone)

TrofimovichPavel

McDonoughKim

Disciplina

401/.93072

Soggetti

Second language acquisition - Methodology

Priming (Psychology)

Psycholinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Using priming methods in L2 learning research -- pt. 2. Innovative approaches to L2 priming research.

Sommario/riassunto

The following study uses a bilingual version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false memory paradigm (Deese 1959; Roediger & McDermott 1995) to investigate conceptual mediation in second language (L2) learners. In this paradigm, participants are exposed to a list of words (e.g. bed, rest, dream, etc.) that are highly associated to a critical lure word that is not presented (e.g. sleep). Later, when asked to recall the words presented, participants will often falsely recall the critical lure that was implicitly generated in memory during encoding. Participants were native English-speaking learners of Spanish (N = 241) with varying proficiency in Spanish. The results suggest that proficiency constrains conceptual mediation. Theoretical and pedagogical implications are discussed.