Language-dependent knowledge acquisition
Within the research on bilingual learning, first studies have revealed that content learned in one language is retrieved more slowly when participants have to switch language from instruction to testing (i.e., language-switching costs, LSC). These costs are attributed to language-dependent knowledg...
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| author | Christian G.K. Hahn Henrik Saalbach Clemens Brunner Roland Grabner |
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Within the research on bilingual learning, first studies have revealed that content learned in one language is retrieved more slowly when participants have to switch language from instruction to testing (i.e., language-switching costs, LSC). These costs are attributed to language-dependent knowledge representations. However, the cognitive mechanisms underlying LSC are still largely unknown. We investigated these mechanisms by using strategy as well as translation self-reports and by analysing oscillatory parameters in the electroencephalogram (EEG). Thirty-six university students learned arithmetic facts of three different operations over four days either in English or in German. Afterwards, they were tested in both languages with concurrent assessments of self-reports and electrophysiological activity. As expected, LSC in response latencies were observed in all arithmetic tasks. More importantly, analyses of self-reports and EEG revealed that both translation processes and calculation procedures contribute to LSC, with translation processes being the main cognitive mechanism underlying LSC. These results corroborate previous findings of language-dependent knowledge representations in arithmetic fact learning and shed new light on the cognitive mechanisms underlying LSC and possible educational consequences.
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| spelling | doaj-art-68a3416632c3405b9cc2f9a982350d5a2025-01-29T19:13:11ZengEARLIFrontline Learning Research2295-31592025-01-0113110.14786/flr.v13i1.1225Language-dependent knowledge acquisitionChristian G.K. Hahn0Henrik Saalbach1Clemens Brunner2Roland Grabner3Leipzig University, GermanyLeipzig University,GermanyUniversity of Graz, AustriaUniversity of Graz, Austria Within the research on bilingual learning, first studies have revealed that content learned in one language is retrieved more slowly when participants have to switch language from instruction to testing (i.e., language-switching costs, LSC). These costs are attributed to language-dependent knowledge representations. However, the cognitive mechanisms underlying LSC are still largely unknown. We investigated these mechanisms by using strategy as well as translation self-reports and by analysing oscillatory parameters in the electroencephalogram (EEG). Thirty-six university students learned arithmetic facts of three different operations over four days either in English or in German. Afterwards, they were tested in both languages with concurrent assessments of self-reports and electrophysiological activity. As expected, LSC in response latencies were observed in all arithmetic tasks. More importantly, analyses of self-reports and EEG revealed that both translation processes and calculation procedures contribute to LSC, with translation processes being the main cognitive mechanism underlying LSC. These results corroborate previous findings of language-dependent knowledge representations in arithmetic fact learning and shed new light on the cognitive mechanisms underlying LSC and possible educational consequences. https://flr.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1225Bilingual learning, Language-switching,arithmetic,self-reports,electroencephalograph |
| spellingShingle | Christian G.K. Hahn Henrik Saalbach Clemens Brunner Roland Grabner Language-dependent knowledge acquisition Frontline Learning Research Bilingual learning, Language-switching, arithmetic, self-reports, electroencephalograph |
| title | Language-dependent knowledge acquisition |
| title_full | Language-dependent knowledge acquisition |
| title_fullStr | Language-dependent knowledge acquisition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Language-dependent knowledge acquisition |
| title_short | Language-dependent knowledge acquisition |
| title_sort | language dependent knowledge acquisition |
| topic | Bilingual learning, Language-switching, arithmetic, self-reports, electroencephalograph |
| url | https://flr.journals.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1225 |
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