摘要
同译词是跨语言的一种特殊现象,也是外语词汇教与学的一个难点。本研究基于前人成果提出了外语学习者同译词学习"同时僵化"假设,并开展了"反应时"和"脑电"两项实验来验证该假设。结果表明,中国英语专业研究生学习者对英语同译词的学习确实发生了僵化,究其原因,可能是同译词语义差异凸显度低、语境化的输入不足、共享的母语对译词语义长期占据着同译词心理词条中的语义插槽,同时阻碍了几个同译词自主语义信息的发展所致。
Same-translation words(STW),as a special cross-linguistic phenomenon,have posed a challenge to the teaching and learning of FL vocabulary. By capitalizing on previous studies,the present research proposed the Same-translation Word Simultaneous Fossilization Hypothesis(STWSFH) and conducted an RT and an ERPs experiment separately to test the hypothesis. The results of both experiments lend support to STWSFH in that fossilization did occur in the process of the Chinese English major postgraduate's learning of English same–translation words. It is presumed that the combination of the low semantic difference saliency of the same-translation pair/set,inadequate contextualized exposure,and the occupation of the semantic slots in the mental lexical entry of Same–translation Word A and B by the semantics of L1 translation equivalents make it difficult for learners to build their own semantic information and consequently lead to lexical fossilization.
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