语境线索在留学生阅读伴随词汇学习中的作用:来自眼动的证据

The Facilitation of Contextual Cues on Foreign Students’ Incidental Vocabulary Learning:Evidence from Eye Movement

为探讨语境线索在留学生伴随性词汇学习中的作用,本研究选择不同汉语水平的外国留学生作为被试,操纵了语境线索的强弱,使用眼动仪记录被试的词汇学习过程。结果发现:被试在强语境线索下的词汇学习效果显著高于弱语境线索;随着学习次数的增加,强语境线索下目标词注视时间的下降幅度显著大于弱语境线索,高汉语水平被试目标词注视时间的下降幅度显著大于低汉语水平被试。结果表明:无论留学生汉语水平如何,语境线索促进了他们阅读时的伴随性词汇学习,且学习次数越多,语境线索的促进作用越大。

In order to explore the effects of contextual clues on incidental vocabulary learning for second language learners,the present study manipulated the strength of contextual clues,and asked two groups of foreign students who were different in Chinese reading proficiency to learn Chinese novel words.Their eye movements were recorded by an eye-tracker.Results showed that the learning effect with strong contextual clues was significantly higher than that with weak contextual clues.As the times of learning increased,the decreases in fixation durations on target words learning with contextual clues were significantly greater than those of learning with weak contextual clues.Such pattern was also observed for students with different Chinese reading proficiency,that is,there was a larger decline in fixation durations for students with high Chinese proficiency than that of students with low reading proficiency.These results suggest that contextual clues facilitate students’incidental vocabulary learning,that is,the more times students learn the new words,the greater promotion of contextual clues promotes incidental vocabulary learning.