Lexical prosodic competence and word reading in adult EFL learners

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Publicat a:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications vol. 12, no. 1 (Dec 2025), p. 1628
Autor principal: Hua, Keren
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245 1 |a Lexical prosodic competence and word reading in adult EFL learners 
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520 3 |a The relationship between lexical prosodic competence and word reading was explored, taking into consideration of phonemic awareness and morphological awareness. A total of 90 Chinese university freshmen learning English as a foreign language participated in the study. Two measures were administered to examine their English lexical prosodic competence, i.e., word stress perception and stress production in nonneutral derivatives (derived forms with stress-shifting suffixes, e.g., able + ity → ability). Two measures were administered to examine their English word reading ability, i.e., word identification and nonword decoding. A series of hierarchical regression and mediation analyses were conducted. Both lexical prosodic competences predicted word identification and nonword decoding, respectively, after controlling for nonverbal reasoning, oral vocabulary, and other metalinguistic skills. Word stress perception continued to independently explain unique variance in word identification. Despite the different prosodic systems between Mandarin and English, the adult EFL learners possessed a sensitivity to the primary stress in English multisyllabic words and may have implicit awareness of stress shift cued by nonneutral suffixes. Both types of lexical prosodic competence had direct effects on word identification and nonword decoding. Their relationships to word identification were partially mediated by phonemic awareness and morphological awareness, whereas their relationships to nonword decoding were partially mediated by phonemic awareness only. The combined results provide evidence for the important role of lexical prosodic competence in word reading development and also point to the relevance of this role for adult EFL learners. 
653 |a Language 
653 |a Nonwords 
653 |a Metalinguistics 
653 |a Adult learning 
653 |a Mediation 
653 |a English as a second language learning 
653 |a Stress 
653 |a English as a second language 
653 |a Competence 
653 |a Speaking 
653 |a Phonology 
653 |a Vocabulary 
653 |a Skills 
653 |a Derivation (Morphology) 
653 |a Prosody 
653 |a Phonemic awareness 
653 |a Second language reading 
653 |a Word recognition 
653 |a Suffixes 
653 |a Mandarin 
653 |a Foreign languages 
653 |a Adults 
653 |a Phonological awareness 
653 |a Decoding 
653 |a Morphological processing 
653 |a Reading ability 
653 |a Morphology 
653 |a Consciousness 
653 |a English language 
653 |a Phonetics 
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