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The Contribution Of Thinking Styles To Middle School Students' Semantic Representation Of English Lexical

Posted on:2007-05-19Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J H ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360185996411Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Semantic representation is the critical and profound component in mental lexicon. Psychologists have done a lot for the research on semantic representation model of lexical and its influential factors by the method of cognitive processing and neural connection. Whereas, it remained some problems on account of the complexity of meaning and the diversity of individual' understanding for meaning. The semantic representation mechanism and its influential factors of individual should be taken into account.The representation for word meaning reflects the activity of thought, more speaking, thinking style is the important factor of individual which developed from their thinking. Settled in Chinese cultural background, the research on the contribution of thinking styles to middle school students' semantic representation of English lexical can not only make us understanding more relationship between thought and speech, more knowledge of semantic representation mechanism, more ideas about how the individual is actively constructing the meaning of English words, but also instruct us efficient strategies for the English lexical teaching and learning in middle school.Comprehensively take the research orientation of Cognitive Processing Theory, Genetic Epistemology, Social-Cultural-historical School and Neural Connectionism, this paper analyzed the concept and construction of thinking style with its cognitive...
Keywords/Search Tags:thinking style, semantic representation, priming effect, affected range, interactional and syncretic track, preference, activation time and order
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