Early failure in phonetic recoding and decoding widens the acquisition gap between false beginners and successful learners over time¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q1
Currency · newest study 1997 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 2 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Unsuccessful learners make a false step at the beginning of learning in recoding and decoding phonetically, which hinders smooth passage through the interlanguage continuum and widens the gap with more successful learners as study continues. → Nakamura 1997

Evidence¶

Nakamura 1997¶

Nakamura, Tomoko. (1997). What Makes Language Learners False Beginners? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Language Teaching. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED420194

q1 · i? · associational · r1

Authors' concluding interpretation (type e): even though the two young adult groups' circumstances, including learning age and learning environment, were the same, the recoding and decoding problem makes the acquisition gap wider as learners continue studying.

"Unsuccessful learners make a false step from the very beginning of lanugage learning,recoding and decoding phonetically.This hinders them from passing smoothly through the interlanguage continuum;"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Decoding — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

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