French ESP students taught compound nouns via a cognitive-semantic approach produced highly specialised compounds from their internships more readily than morphosyntax-taught peers¶
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q2 i? Implicit learning of specialised compound nouns was inferred from experimental-group slides containing highly specialised CNs drawn from students' internship knowledge across chemistry, physics, spectroscopy and fluid mechanics, while control-group specialised CNs were all chemical compounds. → Fries 2017
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Fries 2017¶
Fries, M.-H. (2017). Teaching compound nouns in ESP: insights from cognitive semantics. In C. Sarré & S. Whyte (Eds), New developments in ESP teaching and learning research (pp. 93-107). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2017.cssw2017.747
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Qualitative analysis of a slideshow micro-corpus from 16 French Master's process-engineering students (eight per group) after one hour of explicit CN teaching. The author infers implicit learning from highly specialised compounds such as "vortex street" and "absorbance spectrum" in the experimental group's slides.
"This seems to indicate that students in the experimental group were able to translate the knowledge gained during their internship into [noun] + [noun] compounds more easily than in the control group."
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Related Claims¶
- Experimental-group students used compound nouns in slide bullet points more than control-group students, supporting stylistic appropriateness for presentations — related
- Textbook-based morphosyntactic teaching was a sound basis for understanding and reusing key compound nouns, with no clear added value from the cognitive perspective on that measure — related
- Word-order errors in compound nouns were infrequent in both groups, and the highlighting pattern accounted for nearly all compounds, supporting its use as a teaching heuristic — related
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