The Effect of Language Experience on Stroop Effect by Chinese English Learners

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10.2991/assehr.k.201127.090How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language experience, Stroop effect, word and color recognition, Chinese English learners

Abstract

Due to the different speed of information processing, word meaning contradicting the color would hinder color recognition, a phenomenon known as Stroop interference effect, however whether there is a language experience effect on Stroop effect is less known. In order to investigate this issue, 20 Chinese college students from English and non-English majors were recruited to conduct word and color recognition task using Chinese and English stimuli respectively with Eprime program. It was found that participants spent much longer time in color recognition whereas did not in word recognition when the stimuli did not match, supporting Stroop effect, in addition, Stroop effect was found both in first language (L1) and second language (L2), and the degree of interference would be affected by language experience.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Min Zhu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/28
TI  - The Effect of Language Experience on Stroop Effect by Chinese English Learners
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 452
EP  - 456
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.090
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.090
ID  - Zhu2020
ER  -