Abstract: Using more and less diffcult textual reading materials distracted by English and Chinese irrelevant words，the present study aims  to examine  the inhibiting capacity and  reading efficiency of EFL  learners with different cognitive styles．The  results  indicate  that：（1）cognitive style and reading  task diffculty has signifcant  interactive  impacts on  inhibiting competence and reading effciency．Although feld–independent  learners are  found  to be more skillful  in suppressing distracting  information and exhibits higher  reading effciency  than  the group of feld-dependent  learners on a global basis signifcant group differences only exists on  the  tasks of high diffculty  levels；（2）the language  type of word distracters  is observed  to play different roles  in inhibiting competence subject  to changes of  task diffculty and specifc cognitive style．Field-dependent  learners are signifcantly  less effcient  to suppress Chinese distracting words  than English distracters when reading more diffcult texts．

Keywords: textual reading; cognitive style; inhibition; reading effciency

摘要： 本文采用插入英、汉两种干扰词汇不同难度的语篇阅读任务，考察了不同认知风格外语学习者抑制无关信息的能力及其阅读效率。研究结果表明：（1）认知风格和语篇难度对外语学习者抑制无关干扰信息的能力及其阅读效率具有交互影响，虽然场独立型学习者抑制水平以及阅读效率总体上显著高于场依存型学习者，但上述组间差异仅存在于高难度语篇阅读中，而在低难度语篇阅读任务上差异并不显著；（2）干扰语言刺激类别在不同难度语篇条件下对于不同认知风格学习者的抑制水平具有不同的影响，场依存型学习者在阅读高难度语篇时对汉语词汇干扰的抑制水平显著低于英语干扰词汇。
 

关键词: 语篇阅读, 认知风格, 抑制, 阅读效率