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Japanese and English Sentence Reading Comprehension and Writing Systems: An fMRI Study of First and Second Language Effects on Brain Activation
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Buchweitz, Augusto; Mason, Robert A.; Hasegawa, Mihoko; Just, Marcel A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to compare brain activation from native Japanese (L1) readers reading hiragana (syllabic) and kanji (logographic) sentences, and English as a second language (L2). Kanji showed more activation than hiragana in right-hemisphere occipito-temporal lobe areas associated with visuospatial…
Descriptors: Japanese, English (Second Language), Sentences, Reading Comprehension
Reading in Two Writing Systems: Accommodation and Assimilation of the Brain's Reading Network
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Perfetti, Charles A.; Liu, Ying; Fiez, Julie; Nelson, Jessica; Bolger, Donald J.; Tan, Li-Hai – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007
Bilingual reading can require more than knowing two languages. Learners must acquire also the writing conventions of their second language, which can differ in its deep mapping principles (writing system) and its visual configurations (script). We review ERP (event-related potential) and fMRI studies of both Chinese-English bilingualism and…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Brain