神经机制下工作记忆和二语句子理解研究述评

A Review of Working Memory and L2 Sentence Comprehension from the Perspective of Neural Mechanisms

文章从神经认知学角度,探讨神经机制下工作记忆和二语句子理解的关系。文章阐述了来自神经成像研究的工作记忆的功能以及工作记忆各成分在二语学习中的角色;分析了习得年龄、一语向二语迁移以及内容熟悉度是如何与工作记忆相联系来制约和促进二语句子理解;回顾了近20年来神经机制下工作记忆和二语句子理解的实验研究;总结了此领域的新发现和未来研究的发展趋势。

From cognitive and neural perspective, this paper discusses the relationship between working memory and L2 sentence comprehension. The paper(1) elaborates the function of working memory from neuroimaging evidence and the role of its components in L2 sentence comprehension;(2) analyses how working memory has been linked to the age of acquisition(AoA), transfer from L1 to L2 and content familiarity to modulate and facilitate L2 sentence comprehension;(3) reviews the neural mechanism research on working memory and L2 sentence comprehension in recent 20 years;(4) concludes with some prediction of prospects for future research on working memory and L2 sentence comprehension underlying neural mechanisms.