Shared and Separate Processing Among Bilinguals Knowledge Recall

Abstract

The study aimed at examining the hypotheses of shared and separate knowledge recalling among bilinguals by answering the following questions:

1. Are there statistical differences between means of free recall attributed to the type of the second time display of the word?
2. Are there statistical differences between means of the free recall attributed to gender?
3. Are there statistical differences between means of free recall attributed to the type of the word second time display, gender, and the interaction between both?

The researcher selected (60) common Arabic words and considered them list 1, their Arabic equivalents are considered list 2 and a third list represented their translations. The class-maker site displayed the lists. Time interval between one word display and the other was two seconds and between the different lists ten seconds.

Significant differences attributed to the type of the second time display of the word on free recall means were found. Sheffe test calculated the post hoc comparisons results to find the paired differences between the means, statistical differences were found between the third group and both the first and second groups in favor of the third group. Statistical differences attributed to gender were found on the free recall in favor of females. Differences in means and standard deviations of the free recall attributed to interaction between gender and type of the second time display of the word were found. Differences functionality computed by the variance analyses and found insignificant, f-value scored 0.683 and a significance of (0.510), the performance of the third group was better than the first and second groups for males and females.

Keywords: bilinguals, separate information processing, shared information processing.