The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals.

Research on to the cognitive differences in bilinguals, of languages with similar historical backgrounds, and monolinguals has been ongoing. This study investigated if these established differences, in the working memory, can be extrapolated to a language pair that is dissimilar historically, and to...

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Main Author: Teo, Sarah Jia Yin.
Other Authors: Michael Donald Patterson
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2011
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-438382019-12-10T13:56:59Z The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals. Teo, Sarah Jia Yin. Michael Donald Patterson School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Consciousness and cognition DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Sociolinguistics::Bilingualism Research on to the cognitive differences in bilinguals, of languages with similar historical backgrounds, and monolinguals has been ongoing. This study investigated if these established differences, in the working memory, can be extrapolated to a language pair that is dissimilar historically, and to find out if the level of bilingual proficiency had moderating effects on these relationships. Results show that the differences can be extrapolated to English-Chinese bilinguals, and the level of bilingual proficiency had some moderating effects. Interestingly, English-Chinese bilinguals were found to have better executive control and adopt a different lexical selection strategy, implying greater competence in their working memory. English-Chinese bilinguals could have the possibility of having better human memory, as the foundation long-term memory is built on the capacity of the working memory. Bachelor of Arts 2011-04-29T03:18:15Z 2011-04-29T03:18:15Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43838 en Nanyang Technological University 45 p. application/pdf
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Teo, Sarah Jia Yin.
The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals.
description Research on to the cognitive differences in bilinguals, of languages with similar historical backgrounds, and monolinguals has been ongoing. This study investigated if these established differences, in the working memory, can be extrapolated to a language pair that is dissimilar historically, and to find out if the level of bilingual proficiency had moderating effects on these relationships. Results show that the differences can be extrapolated to English-Chinese bilinguals, and the level of bilingual proficiency had some moderating effects. Interestingly, English-Chinese bilinguals were found to have better executive control and adopt a different lexical selection strategy, implying greater competence in their working memory. English-Chinese bilinguals could have the possibility of having better human memory, as the foundation long-term memory is built on the capacity of the working memory.
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author Teo, Sarah Jia Yin.
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title The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals.
title_short The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals.
title_full The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals.
title_fullStr The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals.
title_full_unstemmed The effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in English-Chinese bilinguals.
title_sort effects of bilingualism on memory encoding and retrieval in english-chinese bilinguals.
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