On Tibetan College Students’ Chinese Word Recognition Based on the High Speed Data Acquisition by SMI

Abstract

Tibetan college students are typical trilinguists. Chinese, as their second language, is quite different from their mother tongue, Tibetan, in the rules of sound and spelling. So their Chinese word processing is quite different from monolinguists’. The article designed two experiments, including visual and auditory word recognition to check the processing order and processing load of sound, form and meaning in Chinese word recognition. Hi-speed of SMI was used to capture the data and SPSS was used to analyze the data. The experiments found that Tibetan college students’ visual Chinese recognition was completed through the route of phonological mediation, while auditory Chinese recognition conformed to the theory of recombination of phonological representation The results showed that sound was crucial in the process of word recognition, so the teachers should take advantage of the feature to make their teaching more effective.