Objective:To investigate the neural electrophysiologieal activity underlying Chinese and Eng- lish Stroop tasks for Chinese English bilinguals.Methods:Event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded in 14 Chinese bilingua...Objective:To investigate the neural electrophysiologieal activity underlying Chinese and Eng- lish Stroop tasks for Chinese English bilinguals.Methods:Event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded in 14 Chinese bilinguals with a moderate command of English when they performed the Stroop task pre- sented in English words and Chinese characters,respectively.Results:In Chinese task version,it was found an increased positivity over bilateral front-polar regions on incongruent trials compared with congru- ent trials,followed by an increased negativity over fronto-central region and an increased positivity over occipital region.While in English task version,only the increased negativity was observed over fronto-cen- tral region,but with reduced amplitude and anterior distribution.Conclusion:This increased negativity was proposed as an index of the resolution processes of conflicting information in the incongruent situa- tion.The increased positivity over occipital region on Chinese incongruent trials may indicate visually rechecking effect for Chinese character.展开更多
Since Korean ethnics in China learn English on the basis of two languages and two cultures, there is dual transfer of Korean-Chinese when they learn English. They can make good use of two language systems and dual pos...Since Korean ethnics in China learn English on the basis of two languages and two cultures, there is dual transfer of Korean-Chinese when they learn English. They can make good use of two language systems and dual positive transfer, and make English-Korean and English-Chinese comparative analysis in the basic stages of English learning.展开更多
The processing of relative clauses receives much concern from linguists. The finding that object relatives are easier to process than subiect relatives in Chinese challenges the notion that subject relative clauses ar...The processing of relative clauses receives much concern from linguists. The finding that object relatives are easier to process than subiect relatives in Chinese challenges the notion that subject relative clauses are preferred universally. A large body of literature provides theories related to sentence processing mechanisms for native speakers but leaves one area relatively untouched： how bilinguals process sentences. This study is designed to examine the case where the individuals with a Chinese L1 language background process subject-extracted subject relative clauses （SS） and subject-extracted object relative clauses （SO） by using event- related potentials （ERPs） to probe into the real-time language processing and presents a direct manifestation of brain activity. The findings from this study support the subject relative clause preference due to the strong influence of English relative clause markedness and bilinguals＇ relative lower working memory capacity.展开更多
Brain mechanism of metaphor processing has always been a focus in Neurolinguistics. This study approaches bilinguals＇ metaphor semantic representation mechanism with Chinese bilinguals with different levels of second...Brain mechanism of metaphor processing has always been a focus in Neurolinguistics. This study approaches bilinguals＇ metaphor semantic representation mechanism with Chinese bilinguals with different levels of second language proficiency by means of ERP （Event-related Potentials） technology. The experiment results showed that： 1） Both hemispheres collaborate in metaphor processing with the left hemisphere serving a leading semantic recognition role. The left hemisphere is more sensitive to first language input, while the right hemisphere is more active to second language input. 2） Compared with Chinese learners of higher proficiency in L2, learners of lower proficiency tend to adopt more Chinese neural mechanism in processing English metaphors. 3） When learners process metaphors, the neural mechanism difference of learners of higher proficiency is smaller than that of those of lower proficiency. The higher the second language proficiency, the higher the degree of common representation of Chinese and English metaphor.展开更多
This study investigates the acquisition of English/■/by Mandarin-English bilinguals from a developmental aspect.First,a detailed description of the acoustic and articulatory(ultrasound)characteristics of Mandarin/■/...This study investigates the acquisition of English/■/by Mandarin-English bilinguals from a developmental aspect.First,a detailed description of the acoustic and articulatory(ultrasound)characteristics of Mandarin/■/is provided to lay the foundation for the cross-linguistic comparison between English and Mandarin rhotic sounds.Second,it investigates if Mandarin-English bilinguals could successfully acquire English/■/sound.The results showed that Mandarin-English bilinguals could learn language-specific phonetic realizations for English/■/,establishing a new phonetic category for the similar L2 sound.In addition,as the language proficiency grows,Mandarin-English bilinguals became more native-like in production,but not in perception.It suggests a rather loose connection between production and perception in the speech acquisition for late bilinguals.展开更多
or 17 years,Peng Shituan served as a Chinese diplomat in Vietnam.He is also a prolific poet who shares his daily feelings and thoughts on WeChat Moments in verse form.“I write 10,000 to 20,000 words a month—I never ...or 17 years,Peng Shituan served as a Chinese diplomat in Vietnam.He is also a prolific poet who shares his daily feelings and thoughts on WeChat Moments in verse form.“I write 10,000 to 20,000 words a month—I never count the poems,”he said.This year,he published his third Chinese-Vietnamese bilingual poetry collection,A Pool of Nostalgia.The volume features 100 poems written during his stay in Vietnam between 2019 and 2024,reflecting his deep affection for life in Vietnam.展开更多
With the further development of economic globalization and the internationalization of higher education in our country,it has become a top priority to cultivate interdisciplinary economics talents with an internationa...With the further development of economic globalization and the internationalization of higher education in our country,it has become a top priority to cultivate interdisciplinary economics talents with an international vision and cross-cultural communication ability.As an important way to achieve this goal,bilingual teaching of economics is particularly important in the early undergraduate stage,but it also faces many challenges.This paper aims to analyze the core objectives and existing difficulties of bilingual teaching of economics for junior undergraduates,constructing a bilingual teaching model with the core of“student-centered,hierarchical,and progressive,online and offline integration.”From the curriculum,teaching methods,resource construction,assessment,and other aspects of the specific implementation path,it is expected to provide useful references for improving the quality of bilingual teaching of economics and effectively cultivating internationalized introductory talents in economics.展开更多
This paper explores increased use of the concept of“medical bilingualism”since 2015 as scholars,especially of East Asian medical history and anthropology,have applied it to engagements between two medical systems.It...This paper explores increased use of the concept of“medical bilingualism”since 2015 as scholars,especially of East Asian medical history and anthropology,have applied it to engagements between two medical systems.It reveals an ongoing evolution in the way that scholars understand what a medical system is and how medical systems are differentiated and compared with one another.The image of culturally homogeneous systems of meaning and practice that dominated mid-twentieth-century scholarship on medical systems(especially using the category of ethnomedicines)has been giving way to a more culturally heterogeneous and cosmopolitan picture of how medical practitioners evolve,integrate,and differentiate medical concepts and practices in the context of contemporary societies and the new forms of life they engender.This reformulated concept of medical bilingualism emphasizes the ways in which medical systems overlap yet remain distinct.First,the paper summarizes results of an experiment with AI searches on medical bilingualism,then narrates its historiography both pre-COVID-19 and during COVID-19,and finally concludes with some reflections on language ideology,multilingualism,and medical pluralism.展开更多
This paper carefully probes into the main models of the bilingual education in the world, deeply analyses the conditions and requirements on the implementation of the bilingual education in our schools, and clearly di...This paper carefully probes into the main models of the bilingual education in the world, deeply analyses the conditions and requirements on the implementation of the bilingual education in our schools, and clearly differentiates TEFL and TESL as well as bilingual education. The writer thinks that in China we teach English as a foreign language instead of a second language, that the bilingual education is the supreme level of the foreign language acquisition, and that the final goal of the bilingual education is to make learners simultaneously think and use Chinese and English in both ways as well as communicate with one another in two languages according to the situational context. Therefore, it is not easy to practice the bilingual education in a country like China, which is still poor in the English language context. But the situation will change as China enters WTO and the globalization speeds up.展开更多
Under the new situation of the deepening China’s reform, opening up and entering into WTO, education meets new challenges. Bilingual teaching is the demands of entering WTO of our country and enhancing international ...Under the new situation of the deepening China’s reform, opening up and entering into WTO, education meets new challenges. Bilingual teaching is the demands of entering WTO of our country and enhancing international competition, is the developing requests of information and Internet times, is a certain trend of developing diathesis education. It makes students capture knowledge in English, improving students’ applying English ability, meanwhile it makes English and special knowledge infiltrate each other. Bilingual teaching is one of methods of bettering students and teachers’ English level.展开更多
Since China has joined the WTO and the speed of globalization in our country.The professionals with both up to date technological knowledge and good English are needed urgently.It has been shown that bilingual teachin...Since China has joined the WTO and the speed of globalization in our country.The professionals with both up to date technological knowledge and good English are needed urgently.It has been shown that bilingual teaching in IT fields is effect ways of cultivating IT professionals.In this paper,the necessity of bilingual teaching in IT fields is discussed and some of the methods in our practices are also introduced.The satisfactory results of the bilingual teaching in computer courses at our school have been obtained.展开更多
Event-related potentials(ERPs)are a non-invasive neuro-electrophysiological technique that offers high resolution,real-time continuous measurements,as well as multidimensional probing capabilities,of the temple area o...Event-related potentials(ERPs)are a non-invasive neuro-electrophysiological technique that offers high resolution,real-time continuous measurements,as well as multidimensional probing capabilities,of the temple area of the head.These features enable precise,real-time brain activity measurements,making ERPs a preferred tool for linguistic researchers over the past five decades.This paper reviews the ERP applications and their significance in Second Language Acquisition(SLA)research.By analyzing the cognitive changes in the bilingual language processing mechanisms and language switching processes during SLA,this paper aims to demonstrate how ERPs provide in-depth insights into the cognitive mechanisms of SLA.In addition,this paper explores the prospects for ERP applications and the directions for their technological advancement in China.展开更多
Bilingual education is one of Chinese education directions in the 21st century. And constructivism is the educational foundation of bilingual education. This paper presents a study of teaching theory and the pattern o...Bilingual education is one of Chinese education directions in the 21st century. And constructivism is the educational foundation of bilingual education. This paper presents a study of teaching theory and the pattern of bilingual education. The current situation and the development of bilingual education are discussed as well.展开更多
文摘Objective:To investigate the neural electrophysiologieal activity underlying Chinese and Eng- lish Stroop tasks for Chinese English bilinguals.Methods:Event-related potentials(ERPs)were recorded in 14 Chinese bilinguals with a moderate command of English when they performed the Stroop task pre- sented in English words and Chinese characters,respectively.Results:In Chinese task version,it was found an increased positivity over bilateral front-polar regions on incongruent trials compared with congru- ent trials,followed by an increased negativity over fronto-central region and an increased positivity over occipital region.While in English task version,only the increased negativity was observed over fronto-cen- tral region,but with reduced amplitude and anterior distribution.Conclusion:This increased negativity was proposed as an index of the resolution processes of conflicting information in the incongruent situa- tion.The increased positivity over occipital region on Chinese incongruent trials may indicate visually rechecking effect for Chinese character.
文摘Since Korean ethnics in China learn English on the basis of two languages and two cultures, there is dual transfer of Korean-Chinese when they learn English. They can make good use of two language systems and dual positive transfer, and make English-Korean and English-Chinese comparative analysis in the basic stages of English learning.
基金This work was supported through the National Social Science Foundation of China （13BYY072）.
文摘The processing of relative clauses receives much concern from linguists. The finding that object relatives are easier to process than subiect relatives in Chinese challenges the notion that subject relative clauses are preferred universally. A large body of literature provides theories related to sentence processing mechanisms for native speakers but leaves one area relatively untouched： how bilinguals process sentences. This study is designed to examine the case where the individuals with a Chinese L1 language background process subject-extracted subject relative clauses （SS） and subject-extracted object relative clauses （SO） by using event- related potentials （ERPs） to probe into the real-time language processing and presents a direct manifestation of brain activity. The findings from this study support the subject relative clause preference due to the strong influence of English relative clause markedness and bilinguals＇ relative lower working memory capacity.
基金supported by China Foreign Language Education Research Fund under grant No.ZGWYJYJJ2016B79
文摘Brain mechanism of metaphor processing has always been a focus in Neurolinguistics. This study approaches bilinguals＇ metaphor semantic representation mechanism with Chinese bilinguals with different levels of second language proficiency by means of ERP （Event-related Potentials） technology. The experiment results showed that： 1） Both hemispheres collaborate in metaphor processing with the left hemisphere serving a leading semantic recognition role. The left hemisphere is more sensitive to first language input, while the right hemisphere is more active to second language input. 2） Compared with Chinese learners of higher proficiency in L2, learners of lower proficiency tend to adopt more Chinese neural mechanism in processing English metaphors. 3） When learners process metaphors, the neural mechanism difference of learners of higher proficiency is smaller than that of those of lower proficiency. The higher the second language proficiency, the higher the degree of common representation of Chinese and English metaphor.
文摘This study investigates the acquisition of English/■/by Mandarin-English bilinguals from a developmental aspect.First,a detailed description of the acoustic and articulatory(ultrasound)characteristics of Mandarin/■/is provided to lay the foundation for the cross-linguistic comparison between English and Mandarin rhotic sounds.Second,it investigates if Mandarin-English bilinguals could successfully acquire English/■/sound.The results showed that Mandarin-English bilinguals could learn language-specific phonetic realizations for English/■/,establishing a new phonetic category for the similar L2 sound.In addition,as the language proficiency grows,Mandarin-English bilinguals became more native-like in production,but not in perception.It suggests a rather loose connection between production and perception in the speech acquisition for late bilinguals.
文摘or 17 years,Peng Shituan served as a Chinese diplomat in Vietnam.He is also a prolific poet who shares his daily feelings and thoughts on WeChat Moments in verse form.“I write 10,000 to 20,000 words a month—I never count the poems,”he said.This year,he published his third Chinese-Vietnamese bilingual poetry collection,A Pool of Nostalgia.The volume features 100 poems written during his stay in Vietnam between 2019 and 2024,reflecting his deep affection for life in Vietnam.
文摘With the further development of economic globalization and the internationalization of higher education in our country,it has become a top priority to cultivate interdisciplinary economics talents with an international vision and cross-cultural communication ability.As an important way to achieve this goal,bilingual teaching of economics is particularly important in the early undergraduate stage,but it also faces many challenges.This paper aims to analyze the core objectives and existing difficulties of bilingual teaching of economics for junior undergraduates,constructing a bilingual teaching model with the core of“student-centered,hierarchical,and progressive,online and offline integration.”From the curriculum,teaching methods,resource construction,assessment,and other aspects of the specific implementation path,it is expected to provide useful references for improving the quality of bilingual teaching of economics and effectively cultivating internationalized introductory talents in economics.
文摘This paper explores increased use of the concept of“medical bilingualism”since 2015 as scholars,especially of East Asian medical history and anthropology,have applied it to engagements between two medical systems.It reveals an ongoing evolution in the way that scholars understand what a medical system is and how medical systems are differentiated and compared with one another.The image of culturally homogeneous systems of meaning and practice that dominated mid-twentieth-century scholarship on medical systems(especially using the category of ethnomedicines)has been giving way to a more culturally heterogeneous and cosmopolitan picture of how medical practitioners evolve,integrate,and differentiate medical concepts and practices in the context of contemporary societies and the new forms of life they engender.This reformulated concept of medical bilingualism emphasizes the ways in which medical systems overlap yet remain distinct.First,the paper summarizes results of an experiment with AI searches on medical bilingualism,then narrates its historiography both pre-COVID-19 and during COVID-19,and finally concludes with some reflections on language ideology,multilingualism,and medical pluralism.
文摘This paper carefully probes into the main models of the bilingual education in the world, deeply analyses the conditions and requirements on the implementation of the bilingual education in our schools, and clearly differentiates TEFL and TESL as well as bilingual education. The writer thinks that in China we teach English as a foreign language instead of a second language, that the bilingual education is the supreme level of the foreign language acquisition, and that the final goal of the bilingual education is to make learners simultaneously think and use Chinese and English in both ways as well as communicate with one another in two languages according to the situational context. Therefore, it is not easy to practice the bilingual education in a country like China, which is still poor in the English language context. But the situation will change as China enters WTO and the globalization speeds up.
文摘Under the new situation of the deepening China’s reform, opening up and entering into WTO, education meets new challenges. Bilingual teaching is the demands of entering WTO of our country and enhancing international competition, is the developing requests of information and Internet times, is a certain trend of developing diathesis education. It makes students capture knowledge in English, improving students’ applying English ability, meanwhile it makes English and special knowledge infiltrate each other. Bilingual teaching is one of methods of bettering students and teachers’ English level.
文摘Since China has joined the WTO and the speed of globalization in our country.The professionals with both up to date technological knowledge and good English are needed urgently.It has been shown that bilingual teaching in IT fields is effect ways of cultivating IT professionals.In this paper,the necessity of bilingual teaching in IT fields is discussed and some of the methods in our practices are also introduced.The satisfactory results of the bilingual teaching in computer courses at our school have been obtained.
基金funded by the“ERP Study on Vocabulary Translation of Second Language Learners”(Project No.:SCWYGJ22-1)of the Sichuan Foreign Language Literature Research Center.
文摘Event-related potentials(ERPs)are a non-invasive neuro-electrophysiological technique that offers high resolution,real-time continuous measurements,as well as multidimensional probing capabilities,of the temple area of the head.These features enable precise,real-time brain activity measurements,making ERPs a preferred tool for linguistic researchers over the past five decades.This paper reviews the ERP applications and their significance in Second Language Acquisition(SLA)research.By analyzing the cognitive changes in the bilingual language processing mechanisms and language switching processes during SLA,this paper aims to demonstrate how ERPs provide in-depth insights into the cognitive mechanisms of SLA.In addition,this paper explores the prospects for ERP applications and the directions for their technological advancement in China.
文摘Bilingual education is one of Chinese education directions in the 21st century. And constructivism is the educational foundation of bilingual education. This paper presents a study of teaching theory and the pattern of bilingual education. The current situation and the development of bilingual education are discussed as well.
