Second Language Phonolexical Representations in Italian First-Grade Children Enrolled in an English Immersion Program: Effects of Receptive Vocabulary and Environmental Factors.
The study investigated whether Italian child learners of English as a second language (L2) in a partial immersion program show accurate phonological representations of L2 words including challenging non-native vowels, and whether performance is related to age of onset and richness of L2 exposure, re...
| Publicado en: | Language Learning & Development Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 293 - 310 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=186082056&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 186082056 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 15475441 W44 jtl: Language Learning & Development issn: 15475441 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jul-Sep2025 vid: 21 iid: 3 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 186082056 10.1080/15475441.2024.2429038 ppf: 293 ppct: 17 formats: tig: atl: Second Language Phonolexical Representations in Italian First-Grade Children Enrolled in an English Immersion Program: Effects of Receptive Vocabulary and Environmental Factors. aug: au: Persici, Valentina Nelhams, Ross Alexander Majorano, Marinella affil: Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy Department of Humanities, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Urbino, Italy su: Italy Parents Human services programs Task performance Elementary schools Ability Phonetics Vocabulary Training Vowels Data analysis Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test English as a foreign language Italians Statistics Auditory perception Data analysis software sug: subj: Parents Human services programs Task performance Elementary schools Ability Phonetics Vocabulary Training Italy Elementary and Secondary Schools Language Schools Vowels Data analysis Questionnaires Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test English as a foreign language Italians Statistics Auditory perception Data analysis software ab: The study investigated whether Italian child learners of English as a second language (L2) in a partial immersion program show accurate phonological representations of L2 words including challenging non-native vowels, and whether performance is related to age of onset and richness of L2 exposure, receptive L2 vocabulary, and parents' skills in the L2. Twenty-eight children in first grade (mean age = 6;7 years; SD = 0;3) participated in an experiment in which they had to judge whether an English auditory stimulus matched its accompanying picture. In the target condition, picture and word were minimal pairs including the challenging /iː/–/ɪ/or/ʌ/–/æ/contrasts (e.g. sheep-ship). Receptive vocabulary in the L2 was assessed using a standardized test. Information on age of onset and current richness of L2 exposure and parents' skills in the L2 was collected using a questionnaire. Results revealed that children were building lexical representations in the L2 but did not readily distinguish between minimal pairs. Analyses suggested that having underspecified phonolexical presentations in the L2 was potentially related to amount of L2 exposure outside school, presumably due to exposure to accented input. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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