Effects of semantic processing in incidental new L2 vocabulary learning during reading : A test of the "type of processing-resource allocation" model

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This study replicates Barcroft's (2009) experiment. which tested the type of processing-resource allocation (TOPRA) model (Barcroft, 2000) in incidental new second language (L2) vocabulary learning through reading. The model predicts that the semantic processing of new L2 vocabulary assists learners in memorizing the meaning of the vocabulary, but simultaneously depletes other resources that could have been used to process other aspects of the vocabulary (e.g., form and form-meaning connection), thereby inhibiting their learning of these aspects. To replicate Barcroft's (2009) experiment, Japanese university-level EFL learners participated in the present experiment in which the effects of the semantic processing of new L2 vocabulary were compared with those of no particular vocabulary processing (control). Results show tht semantic processing has a negative impact on the learning of new L2 vocabulary, as predicted by the TOPRA model; it thus suggests that processing-resource allocation plays a role in new L2 vocabulary learning during reading.
日本教科教育学会の論文
2010-03-00