英语专业学生工作记忆与英语水平的相关性分析基于一款改良版的工作记忆测试软件.docx

英语专业学生工作记忆与英语水平的相关性分析基于一款改良版的工作记忆测试软件
Title:TheCorrelationbetweenWorkingMemoryandEnglishProficiencyamongEnglishMajorStudents:AnAnalysisBasedonanImprovedVersionofWorkingMemoryTestSoftware
1.Introduction:
Workingmemoryisacognitiveprocessresponsibleforthetemporarystorageandmanipulationofinformation.Itplaysacrucialroleinlanguagelearningandacademicperformance,especiallyinsubjectsrequiringhighlevelsoflanguageproficiency,suchasEnglish.ThispaperaimstoexaminethecorrelationbetweenworkingmemoryandEnglishproficiencyamongEnglishmajorstudentsusinganimprovedversionofworkingmemorytestsoftware.
2.LiteratureReview:
Numerousstudieshaveexploredtherelationshipbetweenworkingmemoryandlanguagelearning.Oneprominenttheory,Baddeley'smodelofworkingmemory,positsthatworkingmemorycomprisesacentralexecutivecomponentresponsibleforattentionalcontrolandtwosubsidiarycomponents:thephonologicalloop(dealingwithverbalinformation)andthevisuospatialsketchpad(handlingvisualandspatialinformation).Researchershavefoundthatlanguagelearningheavilyreliesonthephonologicalloop,asitallowsfortherehearsalandmanipulationofphonologicalinformation.
Severalstudieshavealsoinvestigatedtherelationshipbetweenworkingmemoryandlanguageproficiency.Forinstance,astudybyKaneetal.(2016)revealedapositivecorrelationbetweenworkingmemorycapacityandvocabularylearning,readingcomprehension,andwritingperformance.Similarly,astudybyDanemanandMerikle(1996)foundastrongrelationshipbetweenworkingmemorycapacityandlisteningcomprehension.
3.Methodology:
ToexaminethecorrelationbetweenworkingmemoryandEnglishproficiency,animprovedversionofworkingmemorytestsoftwarewasutilized.Thesoftwareconsistedofvarioustasksdesignedtoassessbothphonologicalandvisuospatialworkingmemory.
Participants:
ThestudyinvolvedEnglishmajorstudentsfromauniversity,agedbetween18and22years.Atotalof100studentsparticipated,withanequalgenderdistribution.
Procedures:
1.ParticipantscompletedademographicquestionnaireprovidinginformationontheirEnglishlearningexperience,self-ratedEnglishprofici