Influencia del tamaño del vocabulario en el conocimiento morfológico de afijos

Affix knowledge helps learners recognize the meaning of unfamiliar words and expand their vocabulary through the identification of the words that contain them. This study investigates the relationship between the vocabulary size and the affix knowledge of a second language (L2) group of students; an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Medellín Gómez, Adriana, Auza Benavides, Alejandra
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ela.enallt.unam.mx:article/570
Acceso en línea:https://ela.enallt.unam.mx/index.php/ela/article/view/570
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:second language acquisition; vocabulary size; order of acquisition
adquisición de segunda lengua; tamaño del vocabulario; conocimiento de afijos
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Sumario:Affix knowledge helps learners recognize the meaning of unfamiliar words and expand their vocabulary through the identification of the words that contain them. This study investigates the relationship between the vocabulary size and the affix knowledge of a second language (L2) group of students; and analyzes its influence over some English derivational prefixes and suffixes. Sixty native speakers of Spanish studying EFL were divided into three different groups of vocabulary size before answering an affix knowledge test. The results show there is a significant relationship between vocabulary size and affix knowledge; and indicate that apparently; prefixes are the first category to be acquired by the lowest vocabulary groups; but this trend reverses for the highest vocabulary size group; which presented a significant increase in suffix knowledge.