TY  - JOUR
A1  - Korochkina, Maria
A1  - Bürki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris
A1  - Nickels, Lyndsey
T1  - Apples and oranges
BT  - how does learning context affect novel word learning?
JF  - Journal of memory and language : JML
N2  - Despite scarce empirical evidence, introducing new vocabulary in semantic categories has long been standard in second language teaching. We examined the effect of learning context on encoding, immediate recall and integration of new vocabulary into semantic memory by contrasting categorically related (novel names for familiar concepts blocked by semantic category) and unrelated (mixed semantic categories) learning contexts. Two learning sessions were conducted 24 hours apart, with each participant exposed to both contexts. Subsequently, a test phase examined picture naming, translation and picture-word interference tasks. Compared to the unrelated context, the categorically related context resulted in poorer naming accuracy in the learning phase, slower response latencies at the immediate recall tasks and greater semantic interference in the picture-word interference task (picture naming in L1 with semantically related novel word distractors). We develop a theoretical account of word learning that attributes observed differences to episodic rather than semantic memory.
KW  - Word learning
KW  - Learning context
KW  - Episodic memory
KW  - Semantic memory
KW  - Integration
KW  - Word production
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104246
SN  - 0749-596X
SN  - 1096-0821
VL  - 120
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -