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Game on: Computerized Training Promotes Second Language Stress–Suffix Associations.

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Τίτλος: Game on: Computerized Training Promotes Second Language Stress–Suffix Associations.
Συγγραφείς: Fernandez, Kaylee, Sagarra, Nuria
Πηγή: Languages; Jul2025, Vol. 10 Issue 7, p170, 23p
Θεματικοί όροι: Second language acquisition, Gamification, Short-term memory, Simulation methods in education, Computational linguistics, Phonotactics
Περίληψη: Effective language processing relies on pattern detection. Spanish monolinguals predict verb tense through stress–suffix associations: a stressed first syllable signals present tense, while an unstressed first syllable signals past tense. Low-proficiency second language (L2) Spanish learners struggle to detect these associations, and we investigated whether they benefit from game-based training. We examined the effects of four variables on their ability to detect stress–suffix associations: three linguistic variables—verbs' lexical stress (oxytones/paroxytones), first-syllable structure (consonant–vowel, CV/consonant–vowel–consonant, CVC), and phonotactic probability—and one learner variable—working memory (WM) span. Beginner English learners of Spanish played a digital game focused on stress–suffix associations for 10 days and completed a Spanish proficiency test (Lextale-Esp), a Spanish background and use questionnaire, and a Corsi WM task. The results revealed moderate gains in the acquisition of stress–suffix associations. Accuracy gains were observed for CV verbs and oxytones, and overall reaction times (RTs) decreased with gameplay. Higher-WM learners were more accurate and slower than lower-WM learners in all verb-type conditions. Our findings suggest that prosody influences word activation and that digital gaming can help learners attend to L2 inflectional morphology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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