The Effect of the Direction of Writing in the Acquired Second Language on the Perception of the Direction of Time Flow #WeResearchPatients

Coordinated by Dr. Aslı Aktan-Erciyes from our Department of Psychology. Prof. Dr. Aslı Aktan-Erciyes from our Psychology Department coordinated the TUBITAK project titled “The Effect of the Direction of Writing in the Acquired Second Language on the Perception of the Direction of Time Flow”, a study that examines how learning a different language affects cognitive processes at the theoretical and practical level.

Anadilinizden farklı bir dili öğrenmek, hayata bakış açınıza farklı bir pencere açıyor. Bununla birlikte bazı bilişsel süreçler bundan beklenmedik bir şekilde etkilenebiliyor. İkinci bir dili öğrendiğinizde aslında bilişsel süreçlere de bir güncelleme yapıyorsunuz. Ne anadiliniz ilk öğrendiğiniz şekliyle kalıyor ne de edindiğiniz ikinci dil anadilin etkisinden bağımsız olabiliyor.

For example, your perception of the direction of time can be affected when you learn a second language (if it is written in a different direction from your native language). For you, time now flows less from left to right.

Coordinated by Dr. Aslı Aktan-Erciyes from our Department of Psychology. Prof. Dr. Aslı Aktan-Erciyes from our Psychology Department coordinates the TUBITAK project titled “The Effect of the Direction of Writing in the Acquired Second Language on the Perception of the Direction of Time Flow”, which aims to explain the effects of the second language on mother tongue processes in both practical and theoretical areas.

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The project with a budget of 44,500 TL, supported by TÜBİTAK 1002 Rapid Support Program, started in October 2021 and will continue until August 2022. The participant profile of the project, which is currently in the data collection phase, is quite wide. Young adults are targeted in this research.

Bu projeyi ve Dr. Erciyes’in direktörlüğünü yaptığı SiLaB / Studies in Language and Bilinguailism (Dil Gelişimi ve Çiftdillilik Araştırmaları) Laboratuvarının çalışmalarını şu adresten takip edebilirsiniz:  https://silab.khas.edu.tr/