Automatization and orthographic development in second language visual word recognition

dc.contributor.authorKida, Shusaku
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-22T02:23:02Z
dc.date.available2020-05-22T02:23:02Z
dc.date.issued2016-04
dc.description.abstractThe present study investigated second language (L2) learners’ acquisition of automatic word recognition and the development of L2 orthographic representation in the mental lexicon. Participants in the study were Japanese university students enrolled in a compulsory course involving a weekly 30-minute sustained silent reading (SSR) activity with graded readers for 12 weeks. They completed the masked form-priming lexical decision task (LDT) before and after the in-class SSR activity. Results showed that participants exhibited signs of increasing automaticity of L2 word recognition (analyzed with the coefficient of variation), but could not develop their L2 orthographic representation (analyzed with the pattern of priming effects in the masked form-priming LDT). These findings suggest that automatization does not necessarily entail the development of orthographic representation, that is, the acquisition of automatic word recognition and the development of orthographic representation do not occur simultaneously. Instead, their development is asymmetrical.
dc.identifier.doi10125/66719
dc.identifier.issn1539-0578
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/66719
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.publisherCenter for Language & Technology
dc.subjectsecond language visual word recognition
dc.subjectautomatization
dc.subjectorthographic representation
dc.subjectcoefficient of variation
dc.subjectmasked form-priming
dc.subjectsustained silent reading
dc.titleAutomatization and orthographic development in second language visual word recognition
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
local.rfl.topicThe Reading Process
prism.endingpage62
prism.number1
prism.startingpage43
prism.volume28

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