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"Does the Form of This Word Fit Its Meaning?" The Effect of Learner-Generated Mapping Elaborations on L2 Word Recall

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Deconinck, Julie; Boers, Frank; Eyckmans, June – Language Teaching Research, 2017

If known words can be defined psycholinguistically as "form-meaning mappings", the present article investigates whether prompting learners to evaluate whether the form of a new second language (L2) word fits its meaning generates "mapping elaborations" that aid recall. Thirty Dutch-speaking upper-intermediate learners of…

Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Concept Mapping, Indo European Languages, Pretests Posttests

Metalinguistic Awareness in L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: Which Factors Influence Learners' Motivations of Form-Meaning Connections?

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Candry, Sarah; Deconinck, Julie; Eyckmans, June – Language Awareness, 2017

Research has shown that prompting learners to elaborate on the appropriateness of form-meaning links can be an efficient vocabulary learning exercise (Deconinck, Boers & Eyckmans, 2017). In this paper we wish to shed more light on the mental processes that occur during this specific elaborative task by investigating the influence of individual…

Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Likert Scales, Protocol Analysis