Investigating the L3 lexical semantics access for Chinese-English-Russian trilingual

This study aims at identifying Russian lexical semantic access for Chinese-English- Russian trilinguals using cross-language visual-modal priming paradigm programed in Psycho Py and Brain Island. Twenty-two university freshmen in China who major in Russian participated in this study. This study examined the roles of L1 Chinese and L2 English in L3 Russian lexical semantic access for Chinese-English-Russian trilinguals. The findings are conducive to the Russian L2/L3 teaching.