Emotional Valence and L2 Lexical Recall Memory:

An Experimental Study withJapanese Learners of English

Tuesday, August 6th 2015 13:00-13:30 (Room 602)the 55th LET National Conference 2015Venue: Senri Life Science Center

Motivation

Learning Anxiety

Pedagogical Application

Emotional Words

Emotional Bilingual Lexicon

e.g. Dörnyei & Ushioda (2011)

e.g. MacIntyre & Gardner (1989)

e.g. Kimura (2015)

e.g. Altarriba (2006)

e.g. Dewaele & Pavlenko (2002)

Motivation

Learning Anxiety

Pedagogical Application

Emotional Words

Emotional Bilingual Lexicon

e.g. Dörnyei & Ushioda (2011)

e.g. MacIntyre & Gardner (1989)

e.g. Kimura (2015)

e.g. Altarriba (2006)

e.g. Dewaele & Pavlenko (2002)

“Indeed, the knowledge of the degree of emotionality of a word and of its affective valenceis just as important as the knowledge of that word’s grammatical class, or its gender.”

- J.-M. Dewaele (2008)

Cognition• Memory• Thought

emotion

emotion

affect and emotions affective and volitional tendency

primordial emotion (valence)

basic emotion

social emotion

intellectual emotioninstinct

adaptation

Social intelligence

Intelligence

seconds hours days years decades centuries millenniatemporal

spatial

individual

group

species

earth

cosmos Fukuda (2006, p. 41)

Damasio (2003, p. 45)

Emotion as a fractal phenomenon

Vallerand & Lalande (2011)

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macro

micro LEXICAL LEVEL ?

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positive unpolarized negative

[valence+] group Mean valence score = 3.44

[valence=] group Mean valence score = 3.14

[valence-] group Mean valence score = 2.54

valence+; positive

e.g.pleasuregiftfamily

・・・

valence=; unpolar

e.g.personhandcity

・・・

valence-; negative

e.g.wardangerpain・・・

PC-based Valence Judgment Task

(→independent variable)

Uninformed Paper-Based Recall Test

(→dependent variable)

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Apparatus: SuperLab® on a laptop PC screen

• Significant

• Significant

• Marginal significance

Emotional Valence of L2 Words and Recall Performance

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i. Orthographical processing

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iv. Emotion-involved processing

My proposition

What has been said (e.g. Craik

and Turving, 1975)

Pedagogical application

♡

Kanazawa (2015a, August) at

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3800/3800-h/3800-h.htm

Emotional Valence and L2 Lexical Recall Memory:

An Experimental Study withJapanese Learners of English

Tuesday, August 6th 2015 13:00-13:30 (Room 602)the 55th LET National Conference 2015Venue: Senri Life Science Center