두 입력강화 기법이 영어 연어처리 및 습득에 미치는 영향: 시선추적 연구

초록

We explored how two types of textual enhancement cues (boldface vs. capitalization) impact collocational processing and subsequent learning. The participants were Korean undergraduate students (N = 46) who were assigned to either boldface or capitalization. They then read an English text containing eighteen boldfaced or capitalized English collocations. While reading, their eye movements were registered by an eye-tracker. Finally, they responded to an unannounced collocation test. The results showed that the participants in the boldface condition group spent significantly less time processing the target collocations than their counterparts in the capitalization condition group. More specifically, the processing differences between the two groups were more pronounced in the initial processing stage than in the later stage of collocational processing. Interestingly, the collocation test results revealed that the boldface group performed significantly better than the capitalization group. Collectively, these results indicate the superiority of boldface over capitalization in terms of processing and acquisition of English collocations.

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