文化图式对理解及记忆的作用(英文)

EFFECTS OF CULTURE-SPECIFIC SCHEMA ON COMPREHENSION AND MEMORY

本研究拟调查建立文化图式对篇章的理解及记忆的作用。解放军外语学院英语专业41名二年级学生参加了实验。这些受试被随机分成4组,每组阅读一段文字的4个版本之一:英语无/有标题版本,汉语无/ 有标题版本。然后对四组受试进行自由回述测试,来检测受试的理解及记忆。统计分析表明,有标题组的成绩显著高于无标题组。汉语组成绩高于英语组,但无显著差异。这说明背景知识对阅读理解及记忆起着重要作用,其作用大于语言熟悉程度。

The present study investigated the effects of building culturally specific schema on comprehension and memory. 41 second year English majors from the PLA Foreign Languages University participated in the experiment. They were randomly divided into 4 groups, each group reading one of the 4 versions of a passage: English with/without a title, and Chinese with/without a title, and then they were tested on their memory of the passage through a free recall task. Statistical analysis indicated that students who read the passage with a title in both L1 and L2 did significantly better in their recall than those who read the passage without a title, which suggests that background knowledge has a significant effect on reading comprehension and memory.