Unpacking cross-linguistic similarities and differences in third language Japanese vocabulary acquisition among Chinese college students

• Autores: Haomin Zhang, Yuting Han, Xi Chen, Jie Sun, Shoran Ohara
• Localización: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, ISSN 0143-4632, Vol. 45, Nº. 2, 2024, págs. 101-113
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The study examined the role of Chinese-Japanese cognate awareness in Japanese vocabulary acquisition among college Chinese learners of Japanese. Thirty-seven college-level students participated in this study and they completed a bilingual cognate awareness test which covered both crosslinguistic similarities and differences. In addition, vocabulary learning measurements including vocabulary knowledge and lexical inference ability were also administered to them. The results showed that Chinese-Japanese cognate awareness in general predicted vocabulary knowledge and lexical inference. More critically, the awareness of false cognates was found to systematically predict all the tested vocabulary measurements. The discussion emphasised the cognitive demands and language specificity underlying the cognate facilitation of vocabulary acquisition.