Linguistic group and perceptual modality show a significant disordinal interaction in metacognition: Arabic speakers monitor better in the auditory modality, Chinese speakers in the visual modality¶

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q3 i2 Metacognition is higher in the auditory than visual modality among Arabic speakers, whereas the pattern is reversed for Chinese speakers; the group*modality interaction on meta-d' was significant (η²p = 0.121). → Polyanskaya 2024

Evidence¶

Polyanskaya 2024¶

Polyanskaya, L., El-Dakhs, D. A. S., Tao, M., Chu, F., & Ordin, M. (2024). The effect of writing script on efficiency and metacognitive monitoring in inferential word learning. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-024-09380-3

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The experiment's omnibus group*modality interaction on meta-d' was significant with printed effect size η²p = 0.121 (medium-to-large), and the authors characterise it as a significant and strong disordinal interaction, with opposite modality patterns in the Arabic and Chinese groups.

"There is a significant and strong disordinal interaction between linguistic group and perceptual modality. Namely, (1) metacognition is higher in the auditory modality than in the visual modality among Arabic speakers, whereas the pattern is reversed for Chinese speakers."

Discussion¶

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• Metacognitive sensitivity (meta-d') in the visual modality is highest among Chinese speakers and lowest among Arabic speakers, with no group differences in the auditory modality — related