바로가기메뉴

본문 바로가기 주메뉴 바로가기

logo

The Role of a Situation Model mediates Text Repetition Effects during the Korean-German Bilingual Reading

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2006, v.18 no.3, pp.157-172

Abstract

Suppose you read a novel twice. The odds are high that you will read it faster during the second reading. This is known as a text repetition effect. This study examined the factors that facilitate rereading. To explain text repetition effects, Raney(2003) proposed a context-dependent representation model. The basic assumptions of the model are that the surface features and textbase are represented in a context-independent manner, and that a coherent situation model binds together the surface features and the text base and leads to context-dependent representation. When a situation model is well developed, overlapping situation models support a rereading benefit. Little or no repetition benefit is expected, when situation models are well developed but there is no semantic overlap between them. In this case, repeating surface forms and textbase will not produce repetition effects. This experiment explored whether rereading effects transfer across two different languages. Fluent Korean-German bilinguals read texts twice either in the same language or in the different, while the texts shared either only the words or also the situations. Repetition effects were found only for texts, in which situation models were preserved, although the translations altered the surface form and textbase. This results demonstrate that the role of a situation model is important for bilingual repetition effects, and that the context-dependent model provides a theoretically meaningful guide for understanding and explaining text repetition effects.

keywords
반복독서, 상황모형, 표면특성, 텍스트기저, 이중언어 사용자, 맥락, rereading, situation model, surface feature, textbase, bilingual, context

Reference

1.

Bowers,J.S, (2000) In defense of abstractionist theories of repetition priming and word identification,

2.

(1989) Perceptual encoding mechanisms are very abstract but not very interactive Journal of Experimental Psychology,

3.

(1989) Semantic facilitation and translation priming effects in Chinese-English bilinguals,

4.

(1983) Strategies of discourse comprehension, Academic Press

5.

(1994) How text difficulty and reader skill interact to produce differential reliance,

6.

(1990) Language comprehension as structure building,

7.

(1974) The represenration od meaning in memory,

8.

(1998) Comprehension: A paradigm for cognition, Cambridge University Press

9.

(1988) Lexical memory in novice bilinguals The role of concepts in retrieving second language words Practical aspects of memory,

10.

(1992) Lexical and conceptual memory in fluent and nonfluent bilinguals Cognitive processing in bilinguals,

11.

(1993) An indirect indicator of reading skill development New directions in cognition,

12.

(2001) Text processing: memory representations mediate fluent reading., Psychology Press

13.

(1993) Transfer of fluency across repetitions and across texts Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology,

14.

(1990) Reprocessing text:Contributions from conceptually driven processes,

15.

(1995) Reading fluency: Episodic integration across texts.,

16.

(1969) Interaction of information in word recognition,

17.

(2003) A context-dependent representation model for explaining text repetition effects,

18.

(1996) Language representation and bilingual reading. ,

19.

(2005) Ersparniseffekte beim Wiederlesen von Texten: Die Rolle von Situationsmodellen bei der Textverarbeitung, Verlag Dr. Kovac.

20.

(1997) The relationship between reading comprehension in L1 and L2. ,

21.

(1989) Journal of Memory & Languages,

22.

(1995) Abstractionist versus episodic theories of repetition priming and word identification,

23.

(1996) The influence of language proficiency and comprehension skill on situation-model construction,

24.

(1995) The construction of situation models in narrative comprehension:an event- indexing model,

25.

(1998) Situation models in language comprehension and memory,

26.

(1998) Situation models in language comprehension and memory,

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology