英语学习者视、听语法判断模态效应研究

Modality Effects on Grammaticality Judgment with the Chinese Learners of English

本文以英语母语使用者为参照,通过听读模态语法判断对比、移动窗口逐词视觉语法判断和慢速听觉语法判断的系列研究,发现在整体上母语使用者视、听两种模态下的表现基本相当,而外语学习者中出现了模态效应,并排除回读给视觉语法判断造成的影响。根据实验结果看,语速可能引起外语学习者不同于母语使用者的模态效应,而对听觉模态目标结构的缺失不能做出正确判断是造成外语学习者语法判断模态效应的主要原因。

Reported in this article are three experiments investigating modality effects on grammaticality judgment(GJ) with the Chinese learners of English.The effect was found with the Chinese learners of English,but not with the native speakers.Experiment 2 addressed the possible effect of repeated reading on GJ via moving-window word-for-word reading.No significant influence of repeated reading was found.Experiment 3 addressed the speed of listening.It was found that the foreign language subjects improved their GJ in the audio modality.But they showed a quite low accuracy rate in judging the inaccurate omission of the target structure.