This study investigates how Chinese logogriphs are comprehended by learners of Chinese as a foreign language(CFL)with different Chinese proficiencies and cultural backgrounds.Eighty-eight CFL learners from four cultur...This study investigates how Chinese logogriphs are comprehended by learners of Chinese as a foreign language(CFL)with different Chinese proficiencies and cultural backgrounds.Eighty-eight CFL learners from four cultures(South Koreans,Southeast Asians,Western Caucasians and Arabs)were divided into two Chinese proficiency groups according to their HSK scores,and 15 L1 Chinese speakers also took part in the experiment as a control group.The participants were asked to write down how they interpreted Chinese logogriphs in questionnaires.An ANOVA analysis was conducted to examine the effects of Chinese proficiency and cultural background on logogriph comprehension.The results indicate that the accuracy of logogriph comprehension and the frequency of adopting logogriph-solving strategies positively correlated with the learners’Chinese proficiency,and that those with higher proficiency used more linguistic and cultural knowledge of the target language.As for cultural influence,Western Caucasians tended to think more visually than the other three cultural groups,and South Koreans and Southeast Asians were better at activating Chinese semantic knowledge.The closer the CFL learners’culture is to Chinese culture,the more similar strategies they adopted to those of L1 Chinese participants.Moreover,the participants’Chinese proficiency and cultural background show an interactive effect on their logogriph comprehension,with the former factor having a greater influence than the latter in this process.展开更多
In the present study,high-density event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded to examine the elec-trophysiologic correlates of "Aha!" effects in a guessing Chinese logogriph task by using a two-stage model f...In the present study,high-density event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded to examine the elec-trophysiologic correlates of "Aha!" effects in a guessing Chinese logogriph task by using a two-stage model for learning-testing.Results showed that:Firstly Successful Guessing elicited a more negative ERP deflection(N350)than Recognition did in the time window from 300―350 ms after onset of the stimuli.A voltage map of the difference wave(Successful Guessing minus Recognition)showed strong activity at the front-central region.Dipole analysis localized the generator of the N350 in the vicinity of the posterior cingulate cortex(PCC)and the inferior frontal gyrus.Secondly,a greater late positive component(LPC)in Successful Guessing than Recognition was found between 600 and 700 ms post-stimulus.Dipole analysis localized the generator of LPC in the right parahippocampal gyrus.展开更多
文摘This study investigates how Chinese logogriphs are comprehended by learners of Chinese as a foreign language(CFL)with different Chinese proficiencies and cultural backgrounds.Eighty-eight CFL learners from four cultures(South Koreans,Southeast Asians,Western Caucasians and Arabs)were divided into two Chinese proficiency groups according to their HSK scores,and 15 L1 Chinese speakers also took part in the experiment as a control group.The participants were asked to write down how they interpreted Chinese logogriphs in questionnaires.An ANOVA analysis was conducted to examine the effects of Chinese proficiency and cultural background on logogriph comprehension.The results indicate that the accuracy of logogriph comprehension and the frequency of adopting logogriph-solving strategies positively correlated with the learners’Chinese proficiency,and that those with higher proficiency used more linguistic and cultural knowledge of the target language.As for cultural influence,Western Caucasians tended to think more visually than the other three cultural groups,and South Koreans and Southeast Asians were better at activating Chinese semantic knowledge.The closer the CFL learners’culture is to Chinese culture,the more similar strategies they adopted to those of L1 Chinese participants.Moreover,the participants’Chinese proficiency and cultural background show an interactive effect on their logogriph comprehension,with the former factor having a greater influence than the latter in this process.
基金the National Key Discipline of Basic Psychology in Southwest China University(Grant Nos.NSKD07002 and NSKD06002)
文摘In the present study,high-density event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded to examine the elec-trophysiologic correlates of "Aha!" effects in a guessing Chinese logogriph task by using a two-stage model for learning-testing.Results showed that:Firstly Successful Guessing elicited a more negative ERP deflection(N350)than Recognition did in the time window from 300―350 ms after onset of the stimuli.A voltage map of the difference wave(Successful Guessing minus Recognition)showed strong activity at the front-central region.Dipole analysis localized the generator of the N350 in the vicinity of the posterior cingulate cortex(PCC)and the inferior frontal gyrus.Secondly,a greater late positive component(LPC)in Successful Guessing than Recognition was found between 600 and 700 ms post-stimulus.Dipole analysis localized the generator of LPC in the right parahippocampal gyrus.
