Tipo: artículo

Metodología: estudio empírico

Temas: enseñanza/aprendizaje de vocabulario

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Inferential vocabulary learning—deriving word meanings from context—plays a central role in vocabulary expansion, yet little is known about how writing systems shape learning outcomes and learners’ confidence in this process. This study investigated the effects of writing system on inferential vocabulary learning in learners whose first language uses the Latin alphabet. Forty-eight native Portuguese speakers learned pseudowords though incidental contextual inference. The pseudowords were presented in four scripts: Latin alphabetic, Cyrillic alphabetic, Arabic abjad, and Chinese logographic. Learning took place in either visual or auditory modality. After learning, we administered a recognition...

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