"Think Positively, in English and Colorfully!"--Vieraalla Kielella Ajattelusta (Mother Tongue, Foreign Language, and Thinking).

Autor/inn/en	Dufva, Hannele; Paakkonen, Merja
Titel	"Think Positively, in English and Colorfully!"--Vieraalla Kielella Ajattelusta (Mother Tongue, Foreign Language, and Thinking).
Quelle	(1998), (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	finnisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Processes; College Students; English (Second Language); Finnish; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Interviews; Language Processing; Language Role; Linguistic Theory; Questionnaires; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Collegestudent; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sprachverarbeitung; Linguistische Theorie; Fragebogen; Minderheitensprache; Finnland
Abstract	This paper discusses the relationship between mother tongue, foreign language, and thinking. It is based on a pilot study carried out with 30 Finnish university students majoring in English philology. All students filled in a questionnaire and four were selected for an interview. In the questionnaires and interviews, the students were asked to reflect upon their feelings and experiences about the relation of linguistic elements and mental images, and especially the role of English, in their thinking. The results suggest that thinking in a foreign language is largely context-bound: certain subjects and situations were more easily associated with English than with Finnish. A non-Cartesian, systemic approach to mind and language is proposed. Some theoretical and methodological issues involved are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC