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Learning a Technical Language: The Modality Effect in Nursing Students' Retention of New Vocabulary
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Patience S. Wieland – Online Submission, 2014
This study explores the modality effect as it applies to beginning nursing students, and whether reading or audio recordings are more effective teaching formats for the highly technical vocabulary and pharmacological terms used in psychiatric nursing. Past research on health science students indicates that personal learning preferences may also…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Reading, Audio Equipment, Vocabulary