The Role Of Phonological Recoding In Second Language Reading Processes

Most people have been able to speak fluently before they learn to read their native language,and people use the inner language as the medium of thought when thinking,many scholars think that people will experience the process of phonological recoding,that is,the text symbols into phonological,and then identify the meaning.Some studies suggest that when reading phonetic characters,it is more dependent on phonological recoding,and when reading text like Chinese,because of the relationship between glyphs and pronunciation is not clear,more dependent on the font directly to extract the meaning of word.In this paper,we study the influence of reading strategies and English language proficiency of Chinese native speakers to English reading.A total of 36 college students were selected as subjects,It is the two-factor mixed experiment which is designed as 2(English language proficiency level:high,low)X4(reading conditions:silent reading,concurrent listening to irrelevant speech,articulatory suppression,reading aloud).Eye movement data(average fixation duration,average saccade amplitude,average reading speed,fixation counts)were recorded,and the differences in reading comprehension,time and reading efficiency were examined.The results of the study draw the following conclusions:(1)When reading English articles for Chinese and English bilingual speakers,the reading word recognition stage is affected by interference in phonological recoding.(2)When English level of Chinese and English bilingual speakers is low,the phonological recoding is more important than meaning via orthographic-semantic route in English reading.(3)When English level of Chinese and English bilingual speakers is high,readers will mainly adopt meaning via orthographic-semantic route in English reading.(4)For the low level English readers,the effect of the three kinds of interference conditions are inconsistent to the English native speakers,the meaning via orthographic-semantic route strategy in Chinese migrate to the English reading.