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A Study on The Sentence Memory Representation of L1 and L2 of Late Bilingual Speaker in Repetitive Sentence Memory Learning

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2020, v.32 no.2, pp.137-144
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2020.32.2.001


& (2020). A Study on The Sentence Memory Representation of L1 and L2 of Late Bilingual Speaker in Repetitive Sentence Memory Learning. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 32(2), 137-144, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2020.32.2.001

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the representational strength of surface and semantic memory structures in L1(first language) and L2(second language) of the late bilingual by performing the repetitive sentence memory task. In this study, 24 participants (male: 12, female: 12) took part in this experiment and their average age is 23.2(SD: 2.08). They repeated this task 4 times with a week interval between each. As a result, the strength of surface representation of L1 is significantly lower than that of L2. However, the strength of semantic representation of L1 is significantly higher than that of L2. In addition, the strengths of surface and semantic representation of L1 have not significantly changed after 4 times participation. In contrast, the strength of surface representation of L2 enhanced and the strength of semantic representation of L2 declined after 4 times participation. Consequently, the first implication is that being more proficient to language enhances the strength of semantic representation but degrades the strength of surface representation in sentence memory. The second is that the strengths of surface and semantic representations would not significantly changed as being more proficient to language, however, as language becomes less proficient, surface representation would develop and semantic representation would decline after 4 times repetitive participation.

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sentence, memory, representation, bilingual speaker, signal detection theory, 문장, 기억, 표상, 이중언어화자, 신호탐지이론

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