The cost of learning new meanings for familiar words
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Learning new meanings for old words: effects of semantic relatedness.
Changes to our everyday activities mean that adult language users need to learn new meanings for previously unambiguous words. For example, we need to learn that a "tweet" is not only the sound a bird makes, but also a short message on a social networking site. In these experiments, adult participants learned new fictional meanings for words with a single dominant meaning (e.g., "ant") by readi...
متن کاملon the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning
the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...
15 صفحه اولLearning new meanings for known words: Biphasic effects of prior knowledge.
In acquiring word meanings, learners are often confronted by a single word form that is mapped to two or more meanings. For example, long after how to roller-"skate", one may learn that "skate" is also a kind of fish. Such learning of new meanings for familiar words involves two potentially contrasting processes, relative to new form-new meaning learning: 1) Form-based familiarity may facilitat...
متن کاملLearning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech
Most work on language acquisition treats word segmentation—the identification of linguistic segments from continuous speech— and word learning—the mapping of those segments to meanings—as separate problems. These two abilities develop in parallel, however, raising the question of whether they might interact. To explore the question, we present a new Bayesian segmentation model that incorporates...
متن کاملthe effects of integrating cooperative learning into vocabulary learning of elementary school students
the purpose of the research is to examine if integrating cooperative learning into vocabulary learning helps to increase word recognition of students in an elementary school in iran. it tries to investigate whether cooperative learning approach enables students to improve their language learning. this research used stad (students team achievement division) as a cooperative model in this study. ...
15 صفحه اولذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2327-3798,2327-3801
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2019.1642500