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Shneyer, Anatoly; Mendelsohn, Avi – Learning & Memory, 2018
Declarative memory performance is superior for items that were encoded in temporal proximity to reward delivery or expectancy. How reward-predicting contexts affect subsequent declarative memory formation in those contexts are, however, unknown. Using an ecological experimental setup in the form of a naturalistic driving simulator task, we…
Descriptors: Memory, Incidental Learning, Concept Formation, Reinforcement
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Molle, Daniella; de Oliveira, Luciana C.; MacDonald, Rita; Bhasin, Anshika – TESOL Journal, 2021
This article discusses the role of vocabulary learning in supporting multilingual students' participation in disciplinary practices and discourses in K-12 content-area classrooms. First, the authors discuss the strengths and limitations of incidental and intentional vocabulary learning. They then propose a new approach to vocabulary instruction in…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland; Myrvold, Hanne Berit; Joramo, Unn-Wenche; Thoresen, Marianne – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
This article draws on new materialism, especially the work of Karen Barad, in order to explore curious encounters and intra-actions within the context of a Norwegian kindergarten. The article argues that intra-actions between both human and non-human agents can potentiate forms of learning as well as forms of knowledge that can be neither…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Workplace Learning, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
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Weinberg, Julia – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2011
A considerable amount of learning, especially in the early years, is incidental learning. What is incidental learning? It is learning that occurs simply through exposure to the environment--what people hear, see, and experience. It takes place in the natural course of events, without intentionally directed instruction about how or what to learn.…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Experiential Learning, Prior Learning, Literacy
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Jubas, Kaela – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
This article discusses shopping, especially critical shopping, as a process of informal and incidental adult learning about the intersecting politics of globalization and consumption. The author uses academic skills and disciplines as a metaphor to respond to an emerging conceptual question: To what extent can formality, informality, and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Concept Formation, Informal Education, Figurative Language
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Gagne, Francoys; Schader, Robin M. – Roeper Review, 2006
The role of chance in talent development appears in the gifted education literature and also in lay discussions of high ability. Nevertheless, chance as a factor in talent development is frequently misunderstood. This analysis scrutinizes some common beliefs and scholarly perspectives on the effects of chance in the development of high ability,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Development, Literature Reviews, Research Needs