Chinese Learners of English See Chinese Words When Reading English Words |
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| Authors: | Fengyang Ma Haiyang Ai |
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| Institution: | 1.School of Education,University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati,USA;2.School of Education,University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati,USA |
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| Abstract: | The present study examines when second language (L2) learners read words in the L2, whether the orthography and/or phonology of the translation words in the first language (L1) is activated and whether the patterns would be modulated by the proficiency in the L2. In two experiments, two groups of Chinese learners of English immersed in the L1 environment, one less proficient and the other more proficient in English, performed a translation recognition task. In this task, participants judged whether pairs of words, with an L2 word preceding an L1 word, were translation words or not. The critical conditions compared the performance of learners to reject distractors that were related to the translation word (e.g., Open image in new window cup) in orthography (e.g., Open image in new window Open image in new window | |
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