A Temporary Decline of Thinking Ability During Foreign Language Processing
A Temporary Decline of Thinking Ability During Foreign Language Processing
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外语处理过程中思维能力的暂时下降
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1993
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A. Noda
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Y. Takano;A. Noda
据预测，使用外语应该会导致思维能力的暂时下降，因为外语比母语施加的更重的处理负荷应该会对同时进行的思维产生更强的干扰。一项针对日英和英日双语者的分散注意力实验证实了这一预测：在思维任务中的表现（即，计算）在并发语言任务（即，回答问题）必须以各自的外语进行。这种下降与外语处理困难本身不同，因为思维任务不涉及外语使用。在另一个分散注意力的实验中也观察到了这种下降，该实验采用了不同类型的思维任务，即采用智力测试中的空间推理问题。
It was predicted that the use of a foreign language should cause a temporary decline of thinking ability because the heavier processing load imposed by a foreign language than by a native language should produce stronger interference with thinking to be performed concurrently. A divided-attention experiment with Japanese-English and English-Japanese bilinguals confirmed this prediction: performance in a thinking task (i.e., calculation) declined when a concurrent linguistic task (i.e., question-answering) had to be performed in their respective foreign languages. This decline is distinguished from foreign language processing difficulty per se because the thinking task involved no foreign language use. The decline was also observed in another divided-attention experiment employing a different type of thinking task, that is, spatial reasoning problems adopted from intelligence tests.