Executive function and Language Learning: Differentiating Vocabulary and Morpho-Syntax
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Papers from the 10th Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching. ed. / Elena Nichele; Diana Pili-Moss; Chongrak Sitthirak. Lancaster: Lancaster University, 2016. p. 53-75 (Papers from LAEL PG; Vol. 10).
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T1 - Executive function and Language Learning
T2 - Differentiating Vocabulary and Morpho-Syntax
AU - Stone, Harriet
AU - Pili-Moss, Diana
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In recent years, the debate around the relationship between executive control and bilingual language proficiency has extended to the investigation of the role of the former in second language learning. The present study is based on data collected from 20 native and near-native adult speakers of English and investigated the relationship between the learning of Brocanto2, an artificial language with a complex morpho-syntax, and two measures of executive function - cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control. Although the result of the present study did not support the existence of a significant relationship between executive function and the acquisition of L2 morpho-syntax, they confirmed the role of vocabulary learning as a factor possibly driving the correlations between language learning and executive function found in previous studies
AB - In recent years, the debate around the relationship between executive control and bilingual language proficiency has extended to the investigation of the role of the former in second language learning. The present study is based on data collected from 20 native and near-native adult speakers of English and investigated the relationship between the learning of Brocanto2, an artificial language with a complex morpho-syntax, and two measures of executive function - cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control. Although the result of the present study did not support the existence of a significant relationship between executive function and the acquisition of L2 morpho-syntax, they confirmed the role of vocabulary learning as a factor possibly driving the correlations between language learning and executive function found in previous studies
KW - Didactics of English as a foreign language
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
T3 - Papers from LAEL PG
SP - 53
EP - 75
BT - Papers from the 10th Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching
A2 - Nichele, Elena
A2 - Pili-Moss, Diana
A2 - Sitthirak, Chongrak
PB - Lancaster University
CY - Lancaster
ER -