Cross-cultural differences in implicit learning of chunks versus symmetries

Who Learns More? Cultural Differences in Implicit Sequence Learning

BACKGROUND It is well documented that East Asians differ from Westerners in conscious perception and attention. However, few studies have explored cultural differences in unconscious processes such as implicit learning. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The global-local Navon letters were adopted in the serial reaction time (SRT) task, during which Chinese and British participants were instructe...

Cross-Cultural Differences in the Input to Early Word Learning

Young English learners typically have vocabularies dominated by nouns, while their Mandarin learning counterparts have relatively more verbs. Novice language learners must initially learn words from the situational contexts in which they appear, since they have limited access to syntactic or semantic context. These studies explore whether differences in these situational contexts could account ...

the effect of explicit versus implicit error correction on writing of iranian intermediate efl learners

در این پایان نامه دو روش اصلاح اشتباهات نوشتاری زبان آموزان بزرگسال ایرانی در سطح متوسط مورد بررسی قرار می گیرد. در روش اول (explicit) اشتباهات بطور مستقیم و در روش دوم (implicit) اشتباهات بصورت غیر مستقیم اصلاح می شود. برای انجام این تحقیق از دو گروه 15 نفری استفاده شده است. به زبان آموزان در هر جلسه یک موضوع انشا داده شده است. این کار در 15 هفته (15 جلسه) تکرار شده است. مقایسه نتایج این آزمون...

Cross-Cultural Differences and Learning Technologies for the Developing World

Cross-Cultural Differences in Mental Representations of Time: Evidence From an Implicit Nonlinguistic Task

Across cultures people construct spatial representations of time. However, the particular spatial layouts created to represent time may differ across cultures. This paper examines whether people automatically access and use culturally specific spatial representations when reasoning about time. In Experiment 1, we asked Hebrew and English speakers to arrange pictures depicting temporal sequences...