Thanks to Michael for sharing his experience and reference. J. Jelly
________________________________________ From: michael sylvester [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 9:12 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] text comprehension in other languages Annette: You may want to check out your Anthropology department and see if there is someone specializin in cross-cultural linguistics. I grew up speaking two languages-English and French creole.When I was a grad student at Mizzou,there was a prof there who did some linguistics research on my island.Her interpretations of the island creole were all wrong.I think re other languages,a distinction is made between "implicit" comprehension and "expressive" comprehension. I guess this is why Ebbinghaus saw the necessity of nonsense syllables in his verbal learning and memory paradigm.You could also check out the ESOL staff.Those ESOL faculty may be erudite in other languages. Btw,for Comprehension and Memory text I recommend a text of one of my profs at Mizzou THE PSYCHOLOGY OF VERBAL LEARNING AND MEMORY by Donald Kausler. Hope this helps. michael "going beyond where no tipster has gone before" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Annette Taylor" <[email protected]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 11:08 AM Subject: [tips] text comprehension in other languages We are studying comprehension and memory for text in cog psych right now--culminating in Kintsch's models. A student asked me if reading comprehension is the same in all languages, those that have quite different approaches to grammar and written language that might not parse the same way romanized (?) languages do. Does anyone have any expertise or knowledge on this? I am doubtful that it is the same in languages whose text (writing and therefore reading of it) depends on characters with an infusion of meanings into a single character; or languages in which words depend on compounds of other words, etc. Our language uses letters that together combine into meaningful words which can then become ambiguous in certain situations. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587541&n=T&l=tips&o=36342 or send a blank email to leave-36342-13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13010.76185584223b2f7b9f3a91a2f9913135&n=T&l=tips&o=36344 or send a blank email to leave-36344-13010.76185584223b2f7b9f3a91a2f9913...@fsulist.frostburg.edu ___________________________________________________________________ This Footer added by the BCCD Information Technology Office: This message is from an external NON-BCCD sender. The Information Technology Office will NEVER ask you for your password. Any such request is not from ITO. Any e-mail asking you to click on a link and provide account information is an attempt to compromise your account! Always use caution when deciding to click an embedded link. ___________________________________________________________________ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=36353 or send a blank email to leave-36353-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
