Character learning as a possible factor in the change of individual cognitive style

LU, Wei-lun. Character learning as a possible factor in the change of individual cognitive style. In The Second Syposium of European Association of Chinese Teaching. 2019.

Basic information

Original name

Character learning as a possible factor in the change of individual cognitive style

Authors

LU, Wei-lun (158 Taiwan, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

The Second Syposium of European Association of Chinese Teaching, 2019

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14640/19:00109785

Organization unit

Language Centre

Keywords in English

character; cognitive style; collectivism; individualism; second language learning

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

The proposed research aims to investigate the relation between second language learning (especially the writing system), culture and cognition. We aim to investigate the possible influence of learning a character-based writing system on the cognitive style of an individual. The hypothesis to test is whether learning a character-based writing system from East Asia will induce change in visual attention distribution of a Western learner, whose first language is based on a romanized writing system. We aim to recruit learners of the Chinese language from the Czech Republic (and its neighboring regions) as the subjects and will compare them with learners of a similar background learning another second language using a romanized writing system.