外国语

外国语 ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (6): 67-77.

• 语言研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

幽默故事阅读中外语词汇学习的马太效应:富者越富？

吴诗玉, 李赞   

  1. 上海交通大学 外国语学院, 上海 200240
  • 收稿日期:2023-02-22 出版日期:2023-11-20 发布日期:2023-12-02
  • 作者简介:吴诗玉,教授,博士生导师。研究方向:应用语言学,二语习得,心理语言学。李赞,在读博士生。研究方向:二语习得。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社科基金项目"基于文本挖掘的外语教师课堂话语促学机制研究"(22BYY096)

The Matthew Effect in L2 Word Learning from Humor Story Reading: The Rich Get Richer?

WU Shiyu, LI Zan   

  1. School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Received:2023-02-22 Online:2023-11-20 Published:2023-12-02

摘要： 本研究以我国的英语学习者为实验对象,探索幽默故事阅读中的二语词汇习得是否存在马太效应,即前置词汇知识越丰富的学习者词汇习得的长期效果越好。在实验中,40名某重点大学的硕士研究生在阅读了36篇幽默和对应的非幽默故事后参加了即时和延时的词汇测试。结果发现,不管是幽默阅读还是非幽默阅读,二语词汇习得都存在马太效应,表现为"富者越富",即学习者前置词汇量越大、故事理解能力越强,词汇习得的长期效果就越好。但是,马太效应在幽默和非幽默这两种不同故事阅读中的表现差异显著。幽默故事阅读存在“门槛”效应,学习者的故事理解能力必须在迈过一个“门槛”后,才能从其前置词汇知识中受益,但是非幽默故事阅读不存在明显的“门槛”效应。

关键词: 词汇习得, 故事阅读, 前置词汇知识, 马太效应

Abstract: The present study investigates whether the Matthew Effect exists in L2 vocabulary acquisition from humor-story reading by Chinese EFL learners, i.e., whether learners with a larger existing vocabulary size reap more benefits than learners with a smaller vocabulary size in the long-term vocabulary acquisition.Forty postgraduate students from a key university took part in the experiment.They first read 36 humor and 36 matching non-humor stories and then took an immediate posttest and a delayed posttest.The results indicated that the Matthew Effect existed in reading both the humor and non-humor stories, namely, the rich get richer.Learners with a larger existing vocabulary size and a better story comprehension ability reaped greater long-term vocabulary learning benefits.However, the Matthew Effect varied significantly across the two different story types.In humor-story reading, a threshold effect existed in that learners need to reach a threshold level of story comprehension ability before they can benefit from their existing vocabulary knowledge.In contrast, no such a threshold effect existed in non-humor story reading.

Key words: vocabulary acquisition, story reading, prior vocabulary knowledge, Matthew Effect

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  • H319.34
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