Second language learners' word production process analyzed by Verbal Fluency Test

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520650
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Juntendo University
• Principal Investigator: ASANO Keiko 順天堂大学, 医学部, 准教授 (40407234)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 言語流暢性検査 / 音韻流暢性課題 / 意味流暢性課題 / 第二言語学習者 / 口語語彙生成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Acquisition of second languages for learners is known as the integration of 4 total skills learning: Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing. In order to improve their language skills, increasing the vocabulary knowledge becomes the core role of learning total skills processes. Even for growing the knowledge of native language, enhancing the number of words is very important. Verbal Fluency Test was applied and conducted to examine how native speakers and second (third) language learners produce words orally. These produced words’ total scores were only adopted to use as quantitative information. However, little information was provided as cognitive processes in ones’ own mental lexicon in comparative language study. The purpose of this study is to examine how Japanese second and third language learners of English and their native speakers access and use a word stored and search the process while producing words.

Free Research Field

英語音声学