Bilingual Dual Coding in Japanese Returnee Students

Taura, Hideyuki

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“…For example, survey responses indicate that dual coding may have occurred in the single-coding mnemonics groups as well as in the nonmnemonics groups. This suggestion is supported by a finding from another study of dual coding in foreign language learning (Taura, 1998). When neither pictorial nor verbal cues are available, students may instinctively form mental images that associate the characters with their meanings.…”

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“…Several responses from the surveys document that participants from the translation and selfgeneration treatments formed mental images to remember characters. Taura (1998) noted that the ratio of picture meaning:translation:copying in similar studies of English with French or English with German was approximately 3:2:1. According to Paivio (1986), dual coding is more likely to occur when the content is highly imageable.…”

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“…Although many studies have examined the effects of dual coding on language learning (Paradis, 1978;Paivio & Lambert, 1981;Steffensen et al 1999;Taura, 1998) and science instruction (Mayer & Anderson, 1991Mayer & Sims, 1994;Rieber, 1989Rieber, , 1990Rieber, , 1991, and other research has investigated the effects of mnemonic devices on second language learning (Butler & Blake, 1973;Wang & Thomas,1992;, little research has examined the effects of using graphics and words as mnemonic devices to memorize Chinese characters. Therefore, the primary goal of this study was to examine the effects of visual and verbal mnemonics on memorizing Chinese characters in a computer-based instructional environment for Chinese as a second-language.…”

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The effects of visual and verbal coding mnemonics on learning Chinese characters in computer-based instruction

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2004

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The effects of visual and verbal coding mnemonics on learning Chinese characters in computer-based instruction

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2004

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“…However, this correlation is not that linear, and the picture is far more complex. For returnees, most research has failed to show a clear link between the length of residence back in the homeland (period of incubation), and the degree of attrition (Flores, 2010(Flores, , 2020Taura, 2008), particularly in the case of non-child returnees. Similarly, the role of amount of exposure to the FSL has not been sufficiently explored in previous research on returnees (with the exception of Kubota, Heycock, et al, 2020, for child returnees).…”

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More insights into the interaction between age, exposure, and attitudes in language attrition and retention from the perspective of bilingual returnees

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Flores

2022

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and Objectives: The study investigates the effects of age, language use, and attitudes on Portuguese returnee bilinguals’ knowledge of German nominal morphology. We focused on language attrition. In addition, we compared whether the results of returnee bilinguals differ in relevant ways from the performance of L1 speakers of German and, if so, in which domains. Methodology: A background questionnaire and offline tasks that elicit lexical knowledge, case, gender, and plural marking in German were applied to a group of Portuguese–German bilingual returnees ( N = 20) and a group of German L1 speakers ( N = 20). Data and Analysis: The elicited data were analyzed through non-parametric tests (Mann–Whitney tests, Wilcoxon tests, and Spearman correlation tests), since not all the requirements for running mixed models could be fulfilled. Findings: The results show that bilingual returnees have very stable knowledge of the analyzed properties: parts of morphosyntactic knowledge are acquired and stabilized in childhood and remain highly invulnerable to loss of contact throughout the speakers’ lifetime. However, returnees’ knowledge of the German case system is constrained by age of input loss, language use, and attitudes. Ungrammatical plural marking is correlated with the speakers’ bonds to the German language and culture. No cross-linguistic influence from Portuguese was found in the domain of plural marking. Originality: This study resumes the question of differential attrition effects in returnee bilinguals by using a more controlled methodology. It extends the investigation to returnees’ performance in the lexical domain and with regard to case, gender, and number morphology in German, also quantifying other variables, such as the age of onset of bilingualism, the amount of contact with German after return, and the length of residence in Portugal. In addition, it focuses the less researched question regarding the role of the returnees’ attitudes toward both their languages. Significance/Implications: The study highlights the multi-dimensional factors that constrain language proficiency over a bilingual speaker’s lifetime.

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“…In order to provide a missing piece of the picture, I will specifically focus on returnees, whose language use has been investigated in the past mostly from linguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives (e.g., Azuma 1993 and later; Azuma & Meier 1997;Morimoto 1999;Taura 1998) and only recently from a sociolinguistic perspective (e.g., Yashiro 1994). By focusing on their use of English through Japanese-English codeswitching, 2 1 will demonstrate that, contrary to the common belief, English performs an intranational interpersonal function in this group of Japanese people.…”

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