Bilinguals’ Existing Languages Benefit Vocabulary Learning in a Third Language

Learning a new language involves substantial vocabulary acquisition. Learners can accelerate this process by relying on words with native‐language overlap, such as cognates. For bilingual third language learners, it is necessary to determine how their two existing languages interact during novel lan...

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Published in:	Language learning Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 110 - 140
Main Authors:	Bartolotti, James, Marian, Viorica
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Wiley-Blackwell 01-03-2017 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Accuracy Adults Artificial Languages Bilingual Education Bilingual Students Bilingualism Cognates English English language German German language Improvement Language acquisition Learning transfer Memory Multilingualism neighborhood size Orthographic Symbols orthotactic probability Outcomes of Education Prediction Probability Scaffolding Scaffolding (Teaching Technique) Second language learning Second language vocabulary learning Statistical Distributions third language acquisition Third language learning Transfer of Training Vocabulary Development Vocabulary learning orthotactic probability vocabulary learning neighborhood size bilingualism third language acquisition
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