中国英语学习者语块认知加工优势研究  

A Study of Cognitive Advantage in Formulaic Sequence Processing among Chinese Learners of English

作　　者：桑紫林[1] 张少林[2] 

机构地区：[1]华东师范大学外语学院 [2]桂林理工大学博文管理学院

出　　处：《外语教学理论与实践》2013年第2期36-41,88,共7页Foreign Language Learning Theory And Practice

基　　金：华东师范大学外语学院光华预研究项目资助;该校大学英语研究中心项目"深化改革背景下促进大学英语有效教学的实践研究"成果之一

摘　　要：语块的认知加工因兼具整体认知的经济性与结构语义理解的复杂性而不易探索。本实验研究主要通过测量中国英语学习者对语块短语和非语块短语语法判断的速度和错误率,考察他们处理语块言语的方式。结果表明,在英语言语认知加工中存在语块主效应,语块呈现出显著的处理优势;习语语块的提取速度显著低于非习语语块,表明语块内部的复杂性对其认知经济性有干扰;高水平组处理语块的速度显著快于低水平组,因而更趋向采用整体提取认知方式。Formulaic sequences processing, due to its coexistence of integral cognitive economy and structure and semantic comprehension complexity, is difficuh to measure. This experiment explores the formulaic sequence processing mechanism employed by Chinese learners of English through measuring their reaction time and error rate in judging the grammaticality of formu- laic and nonformulaic sequences. It is found out that formulaic sequences provide an unequivocal processing advantage over nonformulaic sequences in terms of processing speed and accuracy, that within formulaic sequences, idiom processing speed is slower and accompanied with more errors than that of non-idioms, showing the negative influence of structure complexity on processing, and that the main effect exists in the variable of language proficiency, with higher level learners having a tendency of processing the formulaic sequence as a whole with shorter response time and fewer errors.

关 键 词：语块 认知加工 优势 反应时 错误率 语言水平 

分 类 号：H319[语言文字—英语]