Publications

Publication details [#61891]

Zhang, Yanhui. 2016. The role of morphological awareness in the incidental learning of Chinese characters among CSL learners. Language Awareness 25 (3) : 179–196.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

morphology | reading | second language acquisition | university | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Chinese | Thai

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Morphological awareness plays a bigger and more overt part in easing incidental L2 Chinese character acquisition for intermediate than for advanced learners (here: Thai students at Chongqing Southwest University). The former also more strongly depend on character-intrinsic and orthographic information in new Chinese character learning.