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1、TheEffectsofSemanticClusteringandThematicClusteringonL2LexicalLearning Abstract:Thepresentstudyattemptstoexaminetheeffectsofthematicclusteringandsemanticclusteringonsecondlanguagevocabularylearning,themulti-dimensionalvocabularyknowledgetestsarewelldesigned.Itemployedtentestsmeasuring
2、fiveaspectsofwordknowledge(orthography,meaningandform,grammaticalfunction,syntagmaticassociationandparadigmaticassociation)toassesslearning.Thestudy’spurposeistodiscusswhetherthematicclusteringortheuseofmeaningfulcontextfacilitatesvocabularylearning.Theexperimentfindsthatthelearnershav
3、esignificantlyhigherscoresunderthelearningconditionofsemanticclusteringontheproductiveknowledgeasmeasuredusinggrammaticalfunction,syntagmaticassociationandparadigmaticassociationtests.Inaddition,learnersalsogotgoodmarksunderthelearningconditionofsemanticclusteringonotherdimensionsofvoc
4、abularyknowledge.Thefindingsindicatethatlearningvocabularyundertheconditionofthematicclusteringisofgreathelptolearners. Keywords:Multi-dimensionalvocabularyknowledgeframework;18modesofwordpresentation;thematicclustering,semanticclustering ThispaperisfundedbytheChineseMinistryofEducat
5、ionundertheproject“TheeffectsofmodesofpresentationonChineselearners’vocabularyretention”(ProjectID:13YJC740100)andalsobyChangzhouUniversityundertheproject“TheeffectsofsemanticrelationshiponL2vocabularylearning”(ProjectID:GLY2012035) 0Introduction Presentationisacorecomponentinlanguag
6、eteaching,whichisusedtointroducenewlanguageitems.WordpresentationinEnglishteachingshowslearnerstargetwordsinacertainmanner,whichcoversmorphology,pronunciation,meaning,grammaticalfeature,syntagmaticassociation,paradigmaticassociationandsoon.Presentationnotonlyshowlearnerstargetwordsandl
7、etthembetterunderstandtheteachingcontentbutalso,whichismoreimportant,strengthenlearners’impressionontargetvocabulariesthroughdifferentwordpresentationsandvarioussteps.Inthisway,learnersgetabundantvocabularyknowledgeandconsummatetheformsoftargetwordsintheirmind.Therefore,learnersmakeu
