Abstract
The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the difference between language control and cognitive control mechanism. Also, we investigate changes in cognitive control ability caused by studying foreign language. Two kinds of tasks have been used in the experiment, language switch task and response conflicted task. English was chosen as a foreign language to learn for four weeks. English listening comprehension condition was separated into two groups: one group is a pause group and the other group is a non-pause group. Language switch task used numeral stimuli and had two kinds of color conditions: one color condition was Korean reading and the other color condition was English reading. Response conflict task used two kind of conditions, congruent condition and incongruent condition. The result of this study is that participants’ reaction time was faster than before they studying English but there was no difference between the two conditions. However, item analysis shows significant differences between the conditions.
