The effect of learning English as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of Persian learners

The findings of the current research on language and thought provide supporting evidence for the idea that language can have a profound effect on thought. In two studies, the authors examined the effect of learning English as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of Persian learn...

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Autores principales:	Rahimi,Meisam, Tavakoli,Mansoor
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 2016
Materias:	Level of construal construal level theory psychological distance bilingualism linguistic relativity
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spellingShingle	Level of construal construal level theory psychological distance bilingualism linguistic relativity Rahimi,Meisam Tavakoli,Mansoor The effect of learning English as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of Persian learners
description	The findings of the current research on language and thought provide supporting evidence for the idea that language can have a profound effect on thought. In two studies, the authors examined the effect of learning English as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of Persian learners. In the first study, 99 participants and in the second study 92 participants were recruited. The participants were assigned to three groups of monolinguals, low level bilinguals and high level bilinguals based on their performance on the Oxford Quick Placement Test (QPT). Drawing on the assumptions of Construal Level Theory (CLT, Trope & Liberman, 2003), we primed global processing in participants through Navons task (1977). Having completed the task, participants were required to estimate temporal and spatial distances in a number of situations. The results of the studies suggest that learning a foreign language can have an impact on the temporal and spatial cognition of language learners.
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title	The effect of learning English as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of Persian learners
title_short	The effect of learning English as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of Persian learners
title_full	The effect of learning English as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of Persian learners
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title_sort	effect of learning english as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of persian learners
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje
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The effect of learning English as a foreign language on the temporal and spatial perception of Persian learners

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