Human sensesMaking sense of a new language

Himanshu Bansal10020516

New Media StudiesDD401

Task for participants

To arrange five colored 2d objects on the basis of instructions given in a foreign language to them

1 2 3 4 5

Mode of instruction

1. Textual2. Speech

Foreign Languages

1. Telugu2. Assamese/ French

Comparison between languages:

Lisez attentivement les instructions suivantes et organiser soigneusement les cinq formes colorées:1. Mettez carré rouge en troisième boîte2. Mettez triangle vert dans la deuxième boîte3. Mettez cercle bleu à la cinquième case4. Mettez cercle vert dans la première case5. Mettez triangle rouge à la quatrième case

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and mode of instruction in same language:

Textual Speech

To Measure:

1 2 3 4 5

Score: No. of boxes with right object in them

2/5

Also…

Retrospective Interviews

Storyboard

1. Language one -> textual instruction

Lisez attentivement les instructions suivantes et organiser soigneusement les cinq formes colorées:1. Mettez carré rouge en troisième boîte2. Mettez triangle vert dans la deuxième boîte3. Mettez cercle bleu à la cinquième case4. Mettez cercle vert dans la première case5. Mettez triangle rouge à la quatrième case

1 2 3 4 5

2. Language one -> textual instruction -> task (can view again)

3. Language one -> textual instruction -> task done

1 2 3 4 5

Score (won’t be shown to participants)

x1/5

4. Language one -> verbal instruction

Lisez attentivement les instructions

1 2 3 4 5

5. Language one -> verbal instruction -> task (can hear again)

6. Language one -> verbal instruction -> task done

1 2 3 4 5

Score (won’t be shown to participants)

x2/5

7-12. Same previous six steps for language two

Language 1

Language 2

Need to keep in mind

1. Participants mustn’t know any of the languages

2. Should change color and shape after for different variables?

3. Color, Shape and Number (form)?4. Languages chosen shouldn’t be too

tough5. Two way single-variate ANOVA

(interaction effect)6. No limit of time and all

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing

and prepared hearer.”

-Robert Louis Stevenson