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Kamal Heidari – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The issues of depth vocabulary knowledge and Willingness to Communicate (henceforth, WTC) are among the most important issues in second language learning. The present study set out to empirically look into the contribution of WTC to depth of vocabulary knowledge in L2 learning. To this end, 88 English L2 learners, divided into two groups in terms…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests
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Eka Ariyati; Herawati Susilo; Hadi Suwono; Fatchur Rohman – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
The perceptions of students who study environmental science related to pollution are certainly different because they are influenced by various circumstances. These circumstances, among others, depend on what they observe around them and their prior knowledge. This study aimed to determine the concept of pollution according to the cognitive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Prior Learning, Cognitive Structures
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Read, John – Language Testing, 2023
Published work on vocabulary assessment has grown substantially in the last 10 years, but it is still somewhat outside the mainstream of the field. There has been a recent call for those developing vocabulary tests to apply professional standards to their work, especially in validating their instruments for specified purposes before releasing them…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Test Format
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Kiwamu Kasahara; Akifumi Yanagisawa – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Research has shown that learning a known-and-unknown word combination leads to greater learning than learning an unknown word alone (Kasahara, 2010, 2011). These studies found that attaching a known adjective to an unknown noun can help learners remember the unknown noun. Kasahara (2015) found that a known verb can serve as an effective cue to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Recall (Psychology), Comparative Analysis
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Vural Tünkler; O¨zlem Kinaci – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The aim of this research is to reveal the cognitive structures of secondary school students regarding the concepts of "good school" and "good teacher". The survey model was used in this study. The data have been gathered through word association test. The study group of the research consists of 162 secondary school students…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures, Language Usage, Student Attitudes
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Zhang, Haomin; Pei, Zhenxia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
This study explored the role of word knowledge dimensions in second language (L2) word-meaning inference. College-level L2 learners (N = 121) participated in this study and completed a series of word knowledge tests including vocabulary size, word associates, morpheme-form knowledge, morpheme-meaning knowledge, morpheme discrimination, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Inferences, Vocabulary Development
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Ahmet Tasdere; Mehmet Fatih Kaya – Science Education International, 2023
The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM) on 10th-grade students' conceptual understanding of the buoyancy and density of liquids topic. Within a pre-experimental (one group pre-test/post-test) research design, this study was conducted with 22 of 10th-grade students. To collect data, the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 10
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Wu, Ching-Lin – Creativity Research Journal, 2022
Remote association, the ability to form new relations between independent elements, was assessed using the Remote Associates Test (RAT). The Chinese RAT (CRAT) includes the Chinese radical RAT (CRRAT), Chinese word RAT (CWRAT), and Chinese compound RAT (CCRAT). Behavioral research indicates that an individual's performance on the CRAT reflects…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Correlation, Chinese, Associative Learning
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Nakiboglu, Canan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
The topic of physical and chemical changes is one of the basic and essential issues of both the lowersecondary school science curriculum and the upper-secondary school chemistry curriculum in many countries. The focus of the present study is to investigate the students' cognitive structures on the topic of physical and chemical changes at…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures
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Tokowicz, Natasha; Rice, Caitlin A.; Ekves, Zachary – Second Language Research, 2023
Some words have more than one translation across languages. Such translation-ambiguous words are harder to learn, recognize, and produce for individuals across the language learning spectrum. Past research demonstrates that learning both translations of translation-ambiguous words on consecutive trials confers an accuracy advantage relative to…
Descriptors: Translation, Ambiguity (Semantics), Native Speakers, English
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Alsahafi, Morad – SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students. Fifty fourth-year university students majoring in English completed a vocabulary depth test, the Word Associates Test (WAT), based on the Academic Word List (AWL). Then,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Teaching and learning of technical terms constitute a major problem for ESP instructors and students. To help the students learn, retain, apply and relate technical terms, a multiple-associations instructional approach that focuses on connecting the printed form of the technical term with its pronunciation (the hidden sounds, double and silent…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Liu, Chun-yan; Jiao, Yan; Qiu, Wen-ting – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
Despite extensive use of online language learning during the pandemic of COVID, there is insufficient research on what factors influence students' foreign language achievements in online learning conditions. This article investigated the roles of language aptitude and online self-regulated learning in foreign language achievement in mainland…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metacognition, Online Courses
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Güngör, Sema Nur; Yücel, Elif Özata; Özer, Dilek Zeren; Özkan, Muhlis – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
This study aims to determine the changes in the cognitive structures of the 35 participants after ecology-based nature education in Bursa Uludag and its vicinity. This study used a single group pretest-posttest experimental mode where the data was collected by a word association test. It included the key concepts of nature, national parks,…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Parks, Comparative Analysis
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Kuhlmann, Beatrice G.; Brubaker, Matthew S.; Pfeiffer, Theresa; Naveh-Benjamin, Moshe – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Few studies have compared interference-based forgetting between item versus associative memory. The memory-system dependent forgetting hypothesis (Hardt, Nader, & Nadel, 2013) predicts that effects of interference on associative memory should be minimal because its hippocampal representation allows pattern separation even of highly similar…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Memory, Comparative Analysis, Interference (Learning)
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