Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference

For bicultural individuals, visual cues of a setting’s cultural expectations can activate associated representations, switching the frames that guide their judgments. Research suggests that cultural cues may affect judgments through automatic priming, but has yet to investigate consequences for ling...

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Main Authors: ZHANG, Shu, MORRIS, Michael W., CHENG, Chi-Ying, YAP, Andy J.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-26642016-11-03T09:54:00Z Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference ZHANG, Shu MORRIS, Michael W. CHENG, Chi-Ying YAP, Andy J. For bicultural individuals, visual cues of a setting’s cultural expectations can activate associated representations, switching the frames that guide their judgments. Research suggests that cultural cues may affect judgments through automatic priming, but has yet to investigate consequences for linguistic performance. The present studies investigate the proposal that heritage-culture cues hinder immigrants’ second-language processing by priming first-language structures. For Chinese immigrants in the United States, speaking to a Chinese (vs. Caucasian) face reduced their English fluency, but at the same time increased their social comfort, effects that did not occur for a comparison group of European Americans (study 1). Similarly, exposure to iconic symbols of Chinese (vs. American) culture hindered Chinese immigrants’ English fluency, when speaking about both culture-laden and culture-neutral topics (study 2). Finally, in both recognition (study 3) and naming tasks (study 4), Chinese icon priming increased accessibility of anomalous literal translations, indicating the intrusion of Chinese lexical structures into English processing. We discuss conceptual implications for the automaticity and adaptiveness of cultural priming and practical implications for immigrant acculturation and second-language learning. 2013-07-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1408 info:doi/10.1073/pnas.1304435110 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2664/viewcontent/PNAS_2013_Zhang_1304435110.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University bilingual cultural psychology cognitive activation cross-language interference Multicultural Psychology
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topic bilingual
cultural psychology
cognitive activation
cross-language interference
Multicultural Psychology
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cultural psychology
cognitive activation
cross-language interference
Multicultural Psychology
ZHANG, Shu
MORRIS, Michael W.
CHENG, Chi-Ying
YAP, Andy J.
Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
description For bicultural individuals, visual cues of a setting’s cultural expectations can activate associated representations, switching the frames that guide their judgments. Research suggests that cultural cues may affect judgments through automatic priming, but has yet to investigate consequences for linguistic performance. The present studies investigate the proposal that heritage-culture cues hinder immigrants’ second-language processing by priming first-language structures. For Chinese immigrants in the United States, speaking to a Chinese (vs. Caucasian) face reduced their English fluency, but at the same time increased their social comfort, effects that did not occur for a comparison group of European Americans (study 1). Similarly, exposure to iconic symbols of Chinese (vs. American) culture hindered Chinese immigrants’ English fluency, when speaking about both culture-laden and culture-neutral topics (study 2). Finally, in both recognition (study 3) and naming tasks (study 4), Chinese icon priming increased accessibility of anomalous literal translations, indicating the intrusion of Chinese lexical structures into English processing. We discuss conceptual implications for the automaticity and adaptiveness of cultural priming and practical implications for immigrant acculturation and second-language learning.
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author ZHANG, Shu
MORRIS, Michael W.
CHENG, Chi-Ying
YAP, Andy J.
author_facet ZHANG, Shu
MORRIS, Michael W.
CHENG, Chi-Ying
YAP, Andy J.
author_sort ZHANG, Shu
title Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
title_short Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
title_full Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
title_fullStr Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
title_full_unstemmed Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
title_sort heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2013
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1408
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2664/viewcontent/PNAS_2013_Zhang_1304435110.pdf
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