2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Functional Brain Imaging Study of L2 vocabulary processing
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22520605
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Bunkyo University (2012)
Sakura no Seibo Junior College (2010-2011) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YOSHIMOTO Kei 東北大学, 高等教育開発推進センター, 教授 (50282017)
YOKOYAMA Satoru 東北大学, 加齢医学研究所, 助教 (20451627)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 第2 言語習得理論 |
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| Research Abstract |
The current research tried to answer the question whether beginners understand English words through Japanese and whether they will be able to process English words directly in English as their level increase. Experiments were conducted in order to observe the process of L2 vocabulary processing in our brain with MEG (magnetoencephalography). The results indicate that advanced learners are faster at lexical processing than beginners, and that beginners utilize broader areas of the brain in semantic processing.
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Research Products
(5 results)
