Prior research has found reduced emotionality with foreign language use, especially with single words, but what happens if emotionality is conveyed throughout a longer text? Does emotionality affect how well we remember and associate information, that is, content learning? We played participants descriptions of two invented countries and tested how well they remembered facts about these countries. Each participant listened to one positive and one neutral description, which was read either in their native language (Spanish) or in their foreign language (English). Participants remembered facts they heard in positive semantic contexts better than those learned in neutral semantic contexts and did better in their native than their foreign language. Importantly, there was no interaction between language and emotionality, suggesting that the previously reported decrease in emotionality in a foreign language might not extend to all areas of foreign language use.

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情感和外语语境对内容学习的影响

先前的研究发现，使用外语会降低情绪化，尤其是使用单个单词时，但如果情绪化在较长的文本中传达会发生什么？情绪是否会影响我们记忆和关联信息的程度，即内容学习？我们播放参与者对两个发明国家的描述，并测试他们对这些国家的事实的记忆程度。每个参与者都听了一个积极的和一个中性的描述，用他们的母语（西班牙语）或他们的外语（英语）阅读。参与者记住他们在积极语义环境中听到的事实比在中性语义环境中学习的要好，并且在他们的母语中比在外语中做得更好。重要的是，语言和情绪之间没有相互作用，