L2 learners report higher certainty for meaning recognition than for meaning recall or form recognition of newly encountered words¶

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q3 i? L2 participants' certainty for meaning recognition was significantly higher than for meaning recall and for form recognition. → Pellicer-Sánchez 2016

Evidence¶

Pellicer-Sánchez 2016¶

Pellicer-Sánchez, Ana. (2016). Incidental L2 Vocabulary Acquisition From and While Reading: An Eye-Tracking Study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 38(1), 97-130. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263115000224

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Friedman test with Wilcoxon signed-rank post hoc comparisons (Bonferroni-adjusted alpha p < .017) on certainty ratings (1 = very uncertain, 4 = very certain) from 23 L2 participants across the three vocabulary tests; χ2(2) = 10.92, p = .004.

"the difference between L2 participants’ certainty for meaning recognition was significantly higher than for meaning recall, Z = –3.45, p < .001, and for form recognition, Z = –3.48; p < .001"

Discussion¶

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• After eight encounters in reading, L2 learners recognize the form and meaning of unknown words better than they can recall their meaning — related
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• Unmeasured factors such as reluctance to seem slow, over-certainty, and persistence in recalling complicate time-based memory measures — related