Multicompetence and L2 users’ associative links: being unlike nativelike  

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Zareva, Alla

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 1 (2010), page 2-22.
Topik: word associations; multicompetence; L2 lexicon; inter- and intralingual influences
Fulltext: Zareva_Alla.pdf (416.34KB)

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The study set out to examine the effects of multicompetence on proficient L2 users’ associative links. Three groups of 36 participants each were recruited – NSs of English, NSs of Bulgarian, and proficient Bulgarian L2 users of English – who completed a familiarity and word association test. The findings revealed that L2 users’ natural drive to main connectivity of their lexicons was the motivation for their building lexicosemantic connectedness – which, however, was unlike the patterns of connectivity maintained by the native speakers of both their languages. This showed that, as a result of their developing multicompetence, the L2 users were unlike nativelike in that they developed their lexicosemantic associative links favoring diversity over communality and language-neutral idiosyncrasy over L1 or L2 nativelikeness.

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