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Nancy Gagné; Leif M. French; Kirsten M. Hummel – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Within the same learning context, learners' outcomes in terms of oral fluency vary greatly. This study tracked the relative contributions that first language (L1) and initial second language (L2) fluency skill and working memory (WM) made to L2 fluency development. We assessed the performance of French-speaking Grade 6 learners' (n = 47, mean age:…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Short Term Memory, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Jalbert, Annie; Neath, Ian; Bireta, Tamra J.; Surprenant, Aimee M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The word length effect, the finding that lists of short words are better recalled than lists of long words, has been termed one of the benchmark findings that any theory of immediate memory must account for. Indeed, the effect led directly to the development of working memory and the phonological loop, and it is viewed as the best remaining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language Processing, Learning Processes
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Pascual-Leone, Juan; Baillargeon, Raymond – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1994
Examines subjects' processing in misleading test items. Suggests that the M-power for children, when assessed behaviorally, may increase with age in a discrete manner, and have the potential to generate interval scales of measurement. In addition, suggests that, in light of the results, what statisticians often consider "error of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Children, Cognitive Development