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    The Effects of Learning and Reading Strategies Upon Spanish Vocabulary Acquisition Amongst Middle School Students

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    Genre
    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2008
    Author
    Mast, Douglas Wayne
    Advisor
    Holmquist, Jonathan Carl
    Committee member
    Pavlenko, Aneta, 1963-
    Lorenzino, Gerardo
    Rifkin, Benjamin, 1960-
    Department
    Spanish
    Subject
    Language, Linguistics
    Education, Secondary
    Vocabulary Learning
    Learning Strategies
    Spanish Language
    Middle School Students
    Contextual and Non-contextual Strategies
    Mixed Methodology
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/3672
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/3654
    Abstract
    This study is based on an investigation of the effect of contextual and non-contextual vocabulary strategies carried out among three different sections of middle school students in the researcher's own beginning level Spanish classroom. Although all students participated in the same textbook related classroom activities, students in Group 1 received explicit instruction on contextual (wrote novel sentences, used a bilingual dictionary and morphological analysis) and non-contextually based vocabulary strategies (cognitive and semantic processing); students in Group 2 used bilingual dictionaries, analyzed base words and affixes, and created novel sentences with the words; students in Group 3 did not receive explicit instruction on vocabulary strategies, but were encouraged to use whatever methods they chose. The vocabulary used included words obtained from student textbooks, and Spanish word families. Primary data sources included quiz and test scores, an open-ended questionnaire, and a vocabulary learning dialogue journal. Data analysis consisted of (a) statistical assessment of quiz and test data, and (b) qualitative assessment of an open-ended questionnaire that evaluated student test-taking strategies, and assessment of student self-report data gathered from the dialogue journals. Results of testing instruments indicated that students in the contextually based strategy group had improved in their test taking scores in a more notable manner than the other two groups, and that students in the full-strategy group had achieved notable gains on the vocabulary quizzes. Qualitative analysis of the questionnaire showed the main strategy used by all participants on the vocabulary tests to be Spanish base word analysis. Assessment of the journals indicated a preference for rote and rehearsal strategies over cognitive and semantic processing among students in Group 1. The study suggests a combination of contextually based strategies entailing a focus on L2 base words and affixes may improve student vocabulary test taking scores.
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