ERIC Number: EJ969146
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Publication Date: 2012-Jul
Pages: 14
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The Effects of First- and Second-Language Proficiency on Conflict Resolution and Goal Maintenance in Bilinguals: Evidence from Reaction Time Distributional Analyses in a Stroop Task
Tse, Chi-Shing; Altarriba, Jeanette
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v15 n3 p663-676 Jul 2012
By administering a Stroop task to college-student bilinguals varied in self-rated first- (L1) and second-language (L2) proficiency, the current study examined the effects of L1 and L2 proficiencies on selective attention performance. We conducted ex-Gaussian analyses to capture the modal and positive-tail components of participants' reaction time distributions. Both L1 and L2 proficiencies were associated with a shift of reaction time distributions in incongruent trials, relative to congruent trials, and the tail size of reaction time distributions regardless of trial types. This suggests that bilinguals' L1 and L2 proficiencies could affect their Stroop performance via modulating their conflict resolution and goal maintenance abilities.
Descriptors: Evidence, Reaction Time, Goal Orientation, Attention, Conflict Resolution, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, College Students, Task Analysis, Color, Native Language, Correlation
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