Phonological sequence learning and short-term store capacity determine second language vocabulary acquisition

By G. Speciale, Nick C. Ellis, T. Bywater. Applied Psycholinguistics, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Learning pitch patterns in lexical identification by native English-speaking adults (2007, background): “(For the importance of phonological working memory in relation to second-language learning, see Baddeley, Gathercole, & Papagno, 1998; Cheung, 1996; and Speciale, Ellis, & Bywater, 2004 .) At least their memory is sufficient to perform well in our learning program if pitch were never involved.”
Aspects of working memory in L2 learning (2011, background): “The second is that the effect of phonological short-term memory on vocabulary development interacts with long-term knowledge in the developing system (Abu-Rabia 2001; Speciale et al. 2004; Masoura & Gathercole 2005).”
Phonological memory and lexical, narrative, and grammatical skills in second language oral production by adult learners (2006, background): “However, other L2 studies have shown that PM is correlated with children’s L2 vocabulary (Masoura & Gathercole, 1999, 2005) and predicts the ability of both children (Cheung, 1996) and adults to learn new L2 vocabulary (Atkins & Baddeley, 1998; Gupta, 2003; Speciale, Ellis, & Bywater, 2004 ).”
Phonological short-term memory, working memory and foreign language performance in intensive language learning * (2008, background): “…number of earlier studies, however, which found that phonological short-term memory capacity plays a more important role in the case of less proficient speakers and its effect diminishes with the development of L2 competence (e.g. Cheung, 1996; Speciale et al., 2004; Masoura and Gathercole, 2005).”
Revisiting problems with foreign language aptitude (2008, background): “Phonological short-term memory was found to be related to the ability to acquire new words in L2 (Cheung 1996; Papagno and Vallar 1995; Service 1992; Service and Kohonen 1995; Speciale et al. 2004).”
Age of onset, length of residence, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment in three linguistic domains (2013, background): “The memory component of aptitude (Robinson, 2002; Skehan, 2002) plays a role in the learning of lexis and collocations (e.g. Speciale et al., 2004), but not in morphosyntax.”