Effects of second language acquisition on cognition

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22520558
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Gifu University
• Principal Investigator: KASAI Chise 岐阜大学, 地域科学部, 准教授 (90352450)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: 第二言語習得

Research Abstract

A notion of the current research derives from the idea that a language affects the way we think. Psychological experiments examined speakers of English who have acquired Japanese as a second language. Results show that those who have acquired high level of Japanese proficiency obtain ‘bilingual’ way of thinking which is different from monolingual speakers. The same experiment was administered to Japanese children to see whether there are any cognitive changes through their developmental stages. It was found that cognitive changes happen at the stage of acquiring and Japanese as a first language. Then, another change happens when learning English as a second language.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Bilingual cognition - The relationship between perceptual differences and second language proficiency (2012)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Jun Takahashi, A. Misaki Minoura, Natsumi Hattori, Arisa Iwai and Yuri Nakamura
  • Journal Title: In proceedings of The Fifth CLS International ConferenceCLaSIC 2012, Culture in Foreign Language Learning: Framing and Reframing the Issue, Singapore, 6-8 December 2012
• [Journal Article] Effects of Second Language Acquisition on Speakers' Cognition (2011)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Shizuka Goto, Jun Takahashi, Nana Kondo & Misaki Minoura
  • Journal Title: Conference Proceedings of The 4th Biennial International Conference on the Teaching & Learning of English in Asia : Forging Ahead, Department of Modern Languages College of Arts and Sciences Universiti Utara Malaysia.
• [Journal Article] Bilingual cognition - The effect of second language acquisition on speakers' perception, the results from the Muller - Lyer Illusion (2010)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai., Megumi Hasebe, Akina Okada, Shizuka Goto, Nana Kondo, & Misaki Minoura
  • Journal Title: Conference proceedings of The Fourth CLS International Conference CLaSIC 2010 Individual Characteristics and Subjective Variables in Language Learning Singapore, 2-4 December 2010
• [Journal Article] Bilingual cognition: How can English be acquired cognitively in Japan? (2010)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Megumi Hasebe, Akina Okada & Hajime Akutsu
  • Journal Title: JALT2009 Conference proceedings Pages: 77-87
• [Journal Article] Searching for happiness across cultures. (2010)
  • Author(s): Damjanovic, L., Roberson, D., Athanasopoulos, P., Kasai, C. & Dyson, M.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Cognition and Culture. 10, 87-110 Volume: Volume 10, Numbers 1-2 Pages: 85-107(23)
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Bilingual cognition - The relationship between perceptual differences and second language proficiency (2012)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Jun Takahashi, A. Misaki Minoura, Natsumi Hattori, Arisa Iwai and Yuri Nakamura
  • Organizer: The Fifth CLS International Conference (CLaSIC 2012), Culture in Foreign Language Learning: Framing and Reframing the Issue
  • Place of Presentation: The National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Year and Date: 20121206-08
• [Presentation] Bilingual cognition: A preliminary report of holistic and analytic views and second language acquisition (2012)
  • Author(s): Kasai Chise, Takahashi, Jun, A. and Nakamura Yuri
  • Organizer: Topics in Applied Linguistics: Communication in the New Media Age
  • Place of Presentation: Opole University, Opole, Poland
  • Year and Date: 20121112-14
• [Presentation] Bilingual Cognition-The Relationship between Perceptual Differences and Second Language Proficiency (2012)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Jun Takahashi, Natsumi Hattori, Arisa Iwai, & Misaki Minoura
  • Organizer: 1st World Congress of Scholars of English Linguistics (WCSEL-1)
  • Place of Presentation: Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
  • Year and Date: 20120626-30
• [Presentation] Bilingual cognition: Cognitive shift and English proficiency, results from item categorisation task in high school (2012)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Jun Takahashi, Shizuka Goto, Natsumi Hattori, Arisa Iwai & Misaki Minoura
  • Organizer: The 12th annual conference of the Japan Second Language Association
  • Place of Presentation: Hosei University, Ichigaya Campus
  • Year and Date: 20120602-03
• [Presentation] Effects of Second Language Acquisition on Speakers' Cognition (2011)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Shizuka Goto, Jun Takahashi, Nana Kondo & Misaki Minoura
  • Organizer: The 4th Biennial International Conference on the Teaching & Learning of English in Asia : Forging Ahead
  • Place of Presentation: HARD ROCK HOTEL, PENANG, MALAYSIA, Department of Modern Languages College of Arts and Sciences Universiti Utara Malaysia
  • Year and Date: 20111110-12
• [Presentation] Bilingual cognition -The relationship between perceptual differences and second language proficiency, the results from the Muller-Lyer Illusion (2011)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Jun A. Takahashi, Shizuka Goto, Nana Kondo, Misaki Minoura
  • Organizer: The 13th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
  • Place of Presentation: Kansai University
  • Year and Date: 20110625-26
• [Presentation] Bilingual cognition: Perceptual differences between monolingual and bilingual speakers (2011)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Jun A. Takahashi, Shizuka Goto, Nana Kondo, Misaki Minoura
  • Organizer: The 11th annual conference of the Japan Second Language Association
  • Place of Presentation: Bunkyo University, Koshigaya Campus
  • Year and Date: 20110611-12
• [Presentation] Bilingual cognition - The effect of second language acquisition on speakers' perception, the results from the Muller - Lyer Illusion (2010)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Megumi Hasebe, Akina Okada, Shizuka Goto, Nana Kondo & Misaki Minoura
  • Organizer: The Fourth CLS International Conference CLaSIC 2010 Individual Characteristics and Subjective Variables in Language Learning Singapore
  • Place of Presentation: The National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Year and Date: 20101202-04
• [Presentation] Bilingual cognition--The effect of numeral classifiers and English proficiency in the cases of Japanese, Chinese and Korean bilinguals (2010)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Megumi Hasebe, Dae-Jin Kim & Tensho Kyu
  • Organizer: The 12th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
  • Place of Presentation: The University of Electro-Communications
  • Year and Date: 20100626-27
• [Presentation] Bilingual cognition: The effect of a plural morphology language on speakers of a numeral classifier language (2010)
  • Author(s): Chise Kasai, Megumi Hasebe, Santiago Rodrigues de Lima & Akina Okada
  • Organizer: The 10th annual conference of the Japan Second Language Association
  • Place of Presentation: Gifu University
  • Year and Date: 20100612-13