An Experimental Study of the Developmental Pattern of Chinese as L2 Mental Lexicon of Thai University Students
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Dec 28, 2020
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Thai University Students, Word Association Test, Chinese As L2 Mental Lexicon, Lexical Organization, Developmental Pattern
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The purpose of this research were: 1) to study the development pattern of the organization of Chinese as L2 mental lexicon of Thai university students; 2) to explain the development route of the freshly learned new words of Thai university students in more detail and accurately; 3) to Provide teaching suggestions for Chinese vocabulary teaching for Thai university students. The populations of this research were 240 of second to fourth grade students of the 2558-2560 which were selected by purposive sampling and majored in TCL of school of sinology at MFLU. The instruments employed to collect data were free association testing and interviewing. The results of the study were as followed: 1) The participants' Chinese mental lexicon is mainly based on the syntagmatic relations, and gradually changes to the paradigmatic relations; 2) The participants' Chinese mental lexicon has a dominant semantic responses, but there is a temporary stabilization of the fossilization phenomenon, their vocabulary acquisition is still in the L1 lemma mediation stage; 3) The diachronic change direction of the participants' Chinese mental lexicon response type is from non-semantic responses to semantic responses, the route of development includes linear, U or ∩ route. This reveals that the acquisition of their Chinese vocabulary does not completely develop in a linear route, but with some U shaped or ∩ shaped developmental trend.
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ต้นฉบับที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์ในวารสารคณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้ ถือเป็นกรรมสิทธิ์ของมหาวิทยาลัยแม่โจ้ ห้ามนำข้อความทั้งหมดหรือบางส่วนไปพิมพ์ซ้ำ เว้นเสียแต่จะได้รับอนุญาตจากมหาวิทยาลัยฯ เป็นลายลักษณ์อักษร
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Li, G. L & Jiang, W. Y. (2015). On the Features of Lexical Network in Chinese as a Second Language: A Case from Chinese Learners in Australia. TCSOL Studies, 4, 22-29.
Li, J. (2003). An Experiment Study of Lexicon Access on Japanese Learners of Chinese. Master’s Thesis. Beijing Language and Culture University.
Li, X. S & Wang, W. Y. (2016). A Comparative Study of word association and Concreteness Effect of English and Chinese Mental Lexicon. Foreign Language World, 5, 70-78.
Lin, C. J & Nisareen, W. (2018). A Longitudinal Case Study on Chinese Character Writing Errors by Thai University Students in Different Learning Stages. Journal of International Studies, 8(1), 196-226.
Liu, Y. L & Ma, J. F. (2010). The Graded Chinese Syllables, Characters and Words for the Application of Teaching Chinese to the Speakers of Other languages. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
Maréchal, C. (1995). The Bilingual Lexicon: Study of French and English Word Association Responses of Advanced Learners of French. M. Phil. Dissertation. University of Dublin.
Meara, P. (1983). Word Associations in a Foreign Language, Nottingham Linguistic Circular, 11, 28-38.
Namei, S. (2004). Bilingual Lexical Development: a Persian-Swedish Word Association Study. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 14, 363-386.
Nissen, H. B. & Henriksen, B. (2006). Word Class Influence on Word Association Test Results. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 16, 389-408.
O'Gorman, E. (1996). An Investigation of the Mental Lexicon of Second Language Learners. TEANGA: The Irish Year Book of Applied Linguistics, 16, 15- 31.
Pan, W. G. (1997). Chinese-English Comparison Outline. Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press.
Schmitt, N. (1998). Tracking the Incremental Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary: A Longitudinal Study. Language Learning, 48, 281-317.
Selinker, L. (1972). Interlanguage. IRAL, 10, 201-231.
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Wang, C. C. (2014). Research on Construction of Chinese Mental Lexicon of Japanese Students Residing in China and Vocabulary Teaching. Master’s Thesis. Liaoning University.
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