Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (1): 72-78.

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The Training Study of Chinese Children and Adults’ Audiovisual English Phonetic Perception

LI Yan-fang, DONG Qi   

  1. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2009-01-15 Published:2009-01-15

Abstract: With 22 primary school students in Grade 5 and 29 freshmen as the subjects,the study explored the effective way for the Chinese children and adult to discriminate difficult English phonemes.In the pre-and post-testing,all the subjects were required to discriminate/s/and/θ/in the audio-only,audio-visual congruent,audio-visual incongruent and visual-only modality.Then half of the subjects received the audio-only training,and another half received audiovisual training,the training process lasted for ten days,and thirty minutes each day.The results showed that:(1)After training,the children received audiovisual training performed significantly better than those received audio-only training in the visual testing modality,there was no difference in other testing modality;(2)In all of the testing modality,there were no significant differences between the adults received audio-only training and audiovisual training.The results showed that,compared with the adults,children showed more strong plasticity of audiovisual phonetic perception.

Key words: McGurk effect, English phonetic perception, audio training, audio-visual training, children and adults

CLC Number: 

  • G442
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