Acquiring Semantic Prosody in L2 Novel Word Learning:The Effect of Context Variability and Gender
This study conducted an experiment on second language(L2)novel word acquisition,manipulating both context emotionality and context variability in which words appeared,to examine whether the affective content of the linguistic context can transfer to words through learners'reading exposure and how this transfer is influenced by context variability and gender.A total of 215 college students participated in the experiment,engaging in immediate and delayed emotional valence rating tasks after reading 45 short English texts containing three types of context emotionality(positive,neutral,and negative).The results indicated that semantic prosody could be successfully acquired,regardless of gender or context variability.However,only females could retain this learning effect over time,independent of contextual conditions,while males could only retain the learning effect of semantic prosody in the varied context,i.e.,after reading multiple materials containing the target words.These findings reveal the mechanism underlying the acquisition of semantic prosody in L2 novel word learning,explore its key influencing variables,and provide valuable insights for L2 vocabulary learning.
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