Activation of L1 Orthography in L2 Word Reading: Constraints from Language and Writing System

Autor/inn/en	Chen, Lin; Perfetti, Charles A.; Fang, Xiaoping; Chang, Li-Yun
Titel	Activation of L1 Orthography in L2 Word Reading: Constraints from Language and Writing System
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 37 (2021) 2, S.323-348 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Chen, Lin) ORCID (Chang, Li-Yun)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658320927761
Schlagwörter	Native Language; Second Language Learning; Transfer of Training; Reading Processes; Naming; Chinese; Orthographic Symbols; English (Second Language); Language Classification; Task Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Language Research; Alphabets; Written Language; Bilingualism; Color; Decision Making; Contrastive Linguistics; College Students; Language Tests; Foreign Students; Second Language Instruction; Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh); Test of English as a Foreign Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Leseprozess; China; Chinesen; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachtypologie; Aufgabenanalyse; Sprachforschung; Buchstabenschrift; Geschriebene Sprache; Bilingualismus; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Collegestudent; Language test; Sprachtest; Fremdsprachenunterricht
Abstract	When reading in a second language, a reader's first language may be involved. For word reading, the question is how and at what level: lexical, pre-lexical, or both. In three experiments, we employed an implicit reading task (color judgment) and an explicit reading task (word naming) to test whether a Chinese meaning equivalent character and its sub-character orthography are activated when first language (L1) Chinese speakers read second language (L2) English words. Because Chinese and English have different spoken and written forms, any cross language effects cannot arise from shared written and spoken forms. Importantly, the experiments provide a comparison with single language experiments within Chinese, which show cross-writing system activation when words are presented in alphabetic Pinyin, leading to activation of the corresponding character and also its sub-character (radical) components. In the present experiments, Chinese-English bilinguals first silently read or made a meaning judgment on an English word. Immediately following, they judged the color of a character (Experiments 1A and 1B) or named it (Experiment 2). Four conditions varied the relation between the character that is the meaning equivalent of the English word and the following character presented for naming or color judgment. The experiments provide evidence that the Chinese meaning equivalent character is activated during the reading of the L2 English. In contrast to the within-Chinese results, the activation of Chinese characters did not extend to the sub-character level. This pattern held for both implicit reading (color judgment) and explicit reading (naming) tasks, indicating that for unrelated languages with writing systems, L1 activation during L2 reading occurs for the specific orthographic L1 form (a single character), mediated by meaning. We conclude that differences in writing systems do not block cross-language co-activation, but that differences in languages limit co-activation to the lexical level. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01