Psychological Development and Education ›› 2003, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (2): 14-18.

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A Comparative Study on the Accessing Mechanism of the Junior and Senior High School Students’ English Semantic Representation

GUO Tao-mei, PENG Dan-ling   

  1. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2003-04-15 Published:2003-04-15

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Abstract: In order to explore how the lexical representation of the junior and senior high school students'second language accesses its conceptual representation,the cross-language primed lexical decision task was used in two experiments.60 subjects for each grade were recruited.In the first experiment,the Chinese target words were primed by their English translations.Significant priming effects were obtained.In the second experiment,the relation between the Chinese targets and the English primes was semantic association.No significant effect was found.In addition,no difference was found between the two types of subjects.The results suggested that the lexical representation of their English could only access the conceptual representation via the corresponding lexical representation of its the first language.Our result supported the hierachical model by Kioll (1994).

Key words: lexical representation, conceptual representation, access, middle-school students

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