TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the effects of phonological processing on foreign-language reading
T2 - An eye-tracking study for chinese learners of japanese-as-a-foreign-language*
AU - Guan, Ying Hua
N1 - Funding Information:
The funding of this research was supported by National Science Council (Grant number NSC 100-2410-H-003-081), and Ministry of Education (Aim for the Top University Plan, Grant number 102J1A2302), Taiwan. I thank Prof. Hsien-Yuan Hsu, Prof. Yi-Ting Hwang, Prof. Yuan-Chin Ivan Chang, and Dr. Shu-Chun Chen for advising me how to conduct better statistical analysis, and Prof. Larry D. Yore (University of Victoria) for his mentoring assistance in relation to this article. I also thank Prof. Hsueh-Chih Chen and Prof. Miao-Hsuan Yen for providing me lab facilities. Thank all the research assistants of the aforementioned research projects and all the subjects who participated in the experiment.
Funding Information:
* 1. Corresponding author’s e-mail address is: yhguan@ntnu.edu.tw 2. The funding of this research was supported by National Science Council (Grant number NSC 100-2410-H-003 -081), and Ministry of Education (Aim for the Top University Plan, Grant number 102J1A2302), Taiwan. I thank Prof. Hsien-Yuan Hsu, Prof. Yi-Ting Hwang, Prof. Yuan-Chin Ivan Chang, and Dr. Shu-Chun Chen for advising me how to conduct better statistical analysis, and Prof. Larry D. Yore (University of Victoria) for his mentoring assistance in relation to this article. I also thank Prof. Hsueh-Chih Chen and Prof. Miao-Hsuan Yen for providing me lab facilities. Thank all the research assistants of the aforementioned research projects and all the subjects who participated in the experiment.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This study explored the effects of phonological processing on text comprehension and word processing in a group of advanced Chinese students learning Japanese-as-a-foreign-language (JFL). Participants’ reading performance and global-and word-level eye-movement patterns were compared under five reading conditions: articulatory suppression, read-aloud, concurrent reading while listening to the text or to an irrelevant speech, and silent reading. In addition, the study examined whether text complexity moderates participants’ phonological processing when reading Japanese text. Finally, how participants’ Chinese knowledge affects their processing of Japanese words written in different script types was investigated through analysis of their word-level eye-movement behavior. The results indicated that participants could comprehend short Japanese texts without relying much on phonological recoding: Articulatory suppression and reading while listening to an irrelevant speech did not significantly impair reading comprehension nor did read-aloud and reading while listening to the text enhance text comprehension. Text complexity did not reliably moderate participants’ phonological processing under the reading conditions. The word processing results showed that participants’ Chinese knowledge facilitated their processing of Chinese-Japanese cognates (i.e., kanji existing both in Chinese and Japanese with the same meanings) but not the processing of Chinese-Japanese homographs or Japanese-coined kanji words. The fact that reading while listening to the text tended to only facilitate the processing of kana words but not the Chinese-Japanese cognates suggests that phonological recoding might not be necessary for accessing the Chinese–Japanese cognates’ meanings but is essential for the processing of words written in kana.
AB - This study explored the effects of phonological processing on text comprehension and word processing in a group of advanced Chinese students learning Japanese-as-a-foreign-language (JFL). Participants’ reading performance and global-and word-level eye-movement patterns were compared under five reading conditions: articulatory suppression, read-aloud, concurrent reading while listening to the text or to an irrelevant speech, and silent reading. In addition, the study examined whether text complexity moderates participants’ phonological processing when reading Japanese text. Finally, how participants’ Chinese knowledge affects their processing of Japanese words written in different script types was investigated through analysis of their word-level eye-movement behavior. The results indicated that participants could comprehend short Japanese texts without relying much on phonological recoding: Articulatory suppression and reading while listening to an irrelevant speech did not significantly impair reading comprehension nor did read-aloud and reading while listening to the text enhance text comprehension. Text complexity did not reliably moderate participants’ phonological processing under the reading conditions. The word processing results showed that participants’ Chinese knowledge facilitated their processing of Chinese-Japanese cognates (i.e., kanji existing both in Chinese and Japanese with the same meanings) but not the processing of Chinese-Japanese homographs or Japanese-coined kanji words. The fact that reading while listening to the text tended to only facilitate the processing of kana words but not the Chinese-Japanese cognates suggests that phonological recoding might not be necessary for accessing the Chinese–Japanese cognates’ meanings but is essential for the processing of words written in kana.
KW - Eye-tracking
KW - Foreign language reading
KW - Linear mixed models
KW - Phonological processing
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U2 - 10.6251/BEP.202003_51(3).0007
DO - 10.6251/BEP.202003_51(3).0007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111383766
VL - 51
SP - 483
EP - 504
JO - Bulletin of Educational Psychology
JF - Bulletin of Educational Psychology
SN - 1011-5714
IS - 3
ER -