Emotional valence promotes free recall of foreign language words after video exposure

IF 1.5 3区 文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Francia Arriagada-Mödinger, Roberto A. Ferreira
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Abstract

The effect of emotional valence in word retrieval is well-established in native languages, but findings in a foreign language remain inconsistent. This study investigated the impact of emotional valence on free word recall in English as a foreign language after video exposure. Participants were upper-intermediate English speakers with Spanish as their mother tongue who watched eight emotionally valenced and four neutral videos, followed by an immediate free recall task and a delayed recall task after 2 weeks. Generalized linear mixed models showed that word valence influenced recall, with neutral words being less easily recalled than negative words, and a decline in recall between sessions. These findings support the Motivated Attention Account, which suggests that motivationally significant stimuli capture more attention than neutral stimuli, regardless of their polarity. Furthermore, the results align with previous evidence in native language research and some studies in foreign language contexts. This study highlights the robust effect of emotional valence on word recall at different time intervals, using authentic input with upper-intermediate English speakers who have Spanish as their mother tongue and who learned English later in life.

情绪情感可促进视频暴露后外语单词的自由回忆
情感价位对单词检索的影响在母语中已得到证实,但在外语中的研究结果仍不一致。本研究调查了视频暴露后,情绪情感对英语作为外语的自由词检索的影响。受试者为母语为西班牙语的中高级英语使用者,他们观看了八段情绪化视频和四段中性视频,并在两周后进行了即时自由回忆任务和延迟回忆任务。广义线性混合模型显示,词的情绪影响了回忆,中性词比负面词更不容易被回忆,而且在两次回忆之间回忆率会下降。这些研究结果支持 "动机注意账户"(Motivated Attention Account),该账户认为,无论刺激的极性如何,具有动机意义的刺激比中性刺激更能吸引注意力。此外,这些结果还与之前的母语研究和一些外语研究的证据相吻合。本研究强调了情绪情感在不同时间间隔内对单词回忆的强大影响,使用的是以西班牙语为母语并在晚年学习英语的中高级英语使用者的真实输入。
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Applied Linguistics (InJAL) publishes articles that explore the relationship between expertise in linguistics, broadly defined, and the everyday experience of language. Its scope is international in that it welcomes articles which show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns.
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