Associate Professor Yum Yen Na from Hong Kong University of Education was invited to give an academic presentation at CCSL
On December 20, 2022, Associate Professor Yum Yen Na from the Hong Kong University of Education was invited to give a wonderful online presentation entitled "How to Learn Novel Concepts: Effects of Language and Presentation" to our students and teachers. The presentation serves as the sixth lecture of the 4th Academic Forum on Language Acquisition, Cognition and Brain Science, and was hosted by Associate Researcher Li Le, a full-time researcher at CCSL.
In the presentation, Associate Professor Yum Yen Na started with the definition of "learning novel concepts" and took "temporal concepts" as the He also showed that this effect can be multi-modal in nature. Secondly, Associate Professor Yum Yen Na transferred this effect to the study of vocabulary acquisition in the field of second language acquisition, and illustrated the "L1-mediation method" and "L2-repetition method" in the process of learning the meaning of second language terminology. In this paper, she discusses whether there are different learning effects between the "L2-repetition method" and "L1-mediation method", i.e., whether there are similar conceptual learning moderation effects in different languages. Finally, Yum introduced the different effects of "word length effects" and "semantic elaboration effects" on the acquisition of second language terminology. "
