The Influence of Contextual Enrichment and Repeated Exposure of New Words on Incidental Vocabulary Learning for Children in Primary School

Abstract

Abstract: This study investigated the influence of contextual enrichment and repeated exposure of new words on Incidental Vocabulary Learning in children repeated reading. Three learning conditions were set up in the experiment: multi context repetition, single context repetition, and baseline. The results showed that both the fixation time reflecting in the early stage of word processing and the total gaze time reflecting in the late stage indicate that the processing time of words was significantly shorter than the single context repetition and baseline conditions, and there was no difference between the latter two. The results indicated that the use of rich contextual cues in repeated reading is the main reason for incidental vocabulary development, however, new words are simply repeated exposures has no obvious effect, further proved that repetition of words can improve the quality of children's new words learning only in a rich context. The implications of contextual richness and repetition in incidental vocabulary learning theory and Chinese practical teaching will be discussed.

Key words: incidental vocabulary learning, repeated reading, context richness, eye movement

摘要： 考察了重复阅读下语境丰富性和生词重复暴露对儿童附带性新词学习的影响。实验设为三种学习条件：多语境重复、单语境重复、基线。结果显示，在反映词汇加工早期阶段的凝视时间和晚期阶段的总注视时间上，均表现为多语境重复学习后的词汇加工时间显著短于单语境重复条件和基线条件，且后两者间无差异。结果证明，儿童在重复阅读过程中对丰富语境线索的使用是附带性词汇学习发展的主要原因，而生词单纯的重复暴露并未产生明显效果，进一步表明只有在丰富的语境环境下单词的重复才会提高儿童新词学习的质量。关于语境丰富性和重复在附带性词汇学习理论和语文实践教学价值上的启示将被讨论。

关键词: 附带性词汇学习, 重复阅读, 语境丰富性, 眼动

CLC Number:

B842.5

LIU Nina, HE Miao, LI Kejia, LIU Zhifang, LIANG Feifei, YAN Guoll. The Influence of Contextual Enrichment and Repeated Exposure of New Words on Incidental Vocabulary Learning for Children in Primary School[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2017, 15(5): 669-674.

刘妮娜, 何苗, 李科佳, 刘志方, 梁菲菲, 闫国利. 语境丰富性和生词重复暴露对儿童附带性词汇学习的影响[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2017, 15(5): 669-674.

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