Conceptual Cross-Linguistic Influence: Exploring the L1 Lemma Mediation Hypothesis in L3 Vocabulary Acquisition

摘要: An increasing number of students various minority and immigrant backgrounds makes greater knowledge the sources cross-linguistic influence among bilingual not only theoretical value, but also beneficial for improving language teaching instruction. The aim this thesis has been to investigate conceptual in functional bilinguals with a focus on investigating whether context frequency bilingual’s use two languages explain towards an L3, variation acquisition could be explained by linguistic similarity, either factual or perceived. present study replicated results Jiang (2002) regarding effect L1 lexis L2 terms similarity evaluations, addition that is observable groups learners. Furthermore, findings support previous hypotheses lexical development L3 guided mother tongue, other previously acquired which line expectations lemma mediation hypothesis (Jiang, 2000).