The cognitive nature of adult bilingual reading: Cross-language activation of se

成人双语阅读的认知本质：se的跨语言激活

• 批准号: 7589394
• 负责人: Ana I Schwartz
• 金额: $ 7.4万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7589394
• 关键词: Accounting; Achievement; Address; Adult; Affect; Age; Basic Science; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Cognitive; Cognitive Science; Computers; Data; Enrollment; Eye Movements; Frequencies; Functional RNA; Goals; Institution; Intervention; Investigation; Knowledge; Laboratories; Language; Late Effects; Latino; Linguistics; Literature; Mexico; Mind; Minority; Modeling; Monitor; Nature; Occupations; Pattern; Population; Positioning Attribute; Process; Reader; Reading; Relative (related person); Research; Resolution; Semantics; Students; Technology; Testing; Time; Update; base; bilingualism; college; design; lexical; literacy; novel; prevent; public health relevance; remediation; skills; spelling; theories

DESCRIPTION: Despite increasing college enrollment, degree completion rates for Latino students lags significantly behind those of Caucasian students. An important barrier to college completion is the need for reading remediation. The goal of this study is to examine the cognitive processes that underlie adult bilingual reading through the use of eye- movement monitoring technology. The specific aim of this research is to examine how bilingual reading is influenced by the coactivation of two languages. This study will look specifically at how the selection of the appropriate meanings of words in sentence context is influenced by the activation of competing representations from the non-target language. The eye-movements of college-aged bilinguals will be recorded as they read English sentences on a computer screen. These sentences will contain words that have more than one meaning, and are therefore ambiguous (e.g., novel, fast). Half of these ambiguous words will be cognates with Spanish (they will have similar spelling and meaning such as novel/novela), and half will not be cognates (e.g., fast). Eye- movements for these different types of ambiguous words will be compared. Any observed differences would suggest that bilingual readers coactivate meanings from both of their languages when understanding ambiguous words. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This research will provide the foundational knowledge necessary for the design of effective reading interventions that are responsive to the unique cross-language dynamics of adult bilingual reading. This research will also contribute to basic research on reading, which has historically emphasized monolingual reading. This will allow the field to better address the needs of second language readers.

描述：尽管大学入学人数不断增加，但拉丁裔学生的学位完成率明显落后于白人学生。完成大学学业的一个重要障碍是需要进行阅读补习。本研究的目的是通过使用眼动监测技术来检查成人双语阅读背后的认知过程。这项研究的具体目的是研究两种语言的共同激活如何影响双语阅读。这项研究将专门研究非目标语言的竞争表征的激活如何影响句子上下文中单词的适当含义的选择。当大学双语者在电脑屏幕上阅读英语句子时，他们的眼球运动将被记录下来。这些句子将包含具有多种含义的单词，因此是不明确的（例如，新颖，快速）。这些歧义词中有一半与西班牙语同源（它们具有相似的拼写和含义，例如小说/中篇小说），一半则不是同源词（例如，快）。将比较这些不同类型的歧义词的眼球运动。任何观察到的差异都表明双语读者在理解歧义单词时会共同激活两种语言的含义。 公共卫生相关性：这项研究将为设计有效的阅读干预措施提供必要的基础知识，这些干预措施应对成人双语阅读的独特跨语言动态。这项研究还将有助于阅读的基础研究，历史上一直强调单语阅读。这将使该领域能够更好地满足第二语言读者的需求。