A Study of L2 Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition

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1、AStudyofL2SecondLanguageVocabularyAcquisitionAbstractL2secondlanguagevocabularyacquisition,asanimportantcomponentinsecondlanguageacquisition,hascalledscholars’increasingattention.Inresentyears,studiesmainlyfocusonvariousdimensionsofanindividualword(depthofvocabularyknowledge),whichfai

2、ledtoreceivedueattentioninthepast.Thepresentstudy,basedonQian(1999)’sframeworkofvocabularyknowledge,attemptstoinvestigatetherelationshipbetweenbreadthanddepthofvocabularyknowledgeandreadingcomprehensioninESLforjuniorhighschoolstudents.Inthestudy,72second-yearjuniorhighschoolstudentsar

3、econsideredasparticipantsofthestudy.Theywererequiredtodotwoteststomeasuretheirvocabularysizeanddepthofvocabularyknowledgerespectively.Theirscoresofreadingcomprehensioninthepastweekwerealsodocumentedfortherepresentationoftheirreadingproficiency.Withinoneweek’sdatacollection,therawdataw

4、ereanalyzedwithPearsoncorrelationandmultipleregressionasdominantstatisticaltechniques.Afterthat,theanalyseswereconductedwithSPSS13.0withfurtherdiscussionmadeandconclusiondrawn.Theresultofthestudyshowedthatthecorrelationamongthescoresofthethreetestswerehighlyandpositivelyassociatedande

5、speciallyscoresondepthofvocabularyknowledgemadeanotablecontributiontothepredictionofreadingcomprehension.Basedontheempiricalevidence,conclusioncouldbedrawnthatreadingproficiencyisaffectedmorebydepthofvocabularyknowledgethanbyvocabularysizeandthetwodimensionsofvocabularyknowledgearestr

6、onglyassociated.Thisindicatesthatvocabularyacquisitionismorethanmerememorizationofaword’sformandmeaning,butrather,itisacomplexprocessofcomprehendingallaspectsofvocabularyknowledge.Thisstudyisinstructivetovocabularyacquisitioninthewaythatitlaysaempiricalfoundationforlearner’srecognitio

7、nofimportanceofimprovingdepthofvocabularyknowledge,22andprovidesmotivesforbothlearnersandteacherstomakejointeffortsinESLlearningandteachingprocess.Introduction0.1ThebriefdescriptionofthestudyThelexiconofalanguageisassumedtobecentralprovesauniquewindowontheprocessofacquisitionforlangua

8、geasa