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Direct linkCimpian, Andrei; Markman, Ellen M. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
There is debate about whether preschool-age children interpret words as referring to kinds or to classes defined by shape similarity. The authors argue that the shape bias reported in previous studies is a task-induced artifact rather than a genuine word-learning strategy. In particular, children were forced to extend an object's novel label to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Associative Learning, Word Recognition, Learning Strategies
Piper, Terry Hull; Leicester, P. F. – 1980
The behavior of native English speakers and Japanese English as second language (ESL) learners on word association tasks was investigated. Research has shown that Japanese adults respond in Japanese in an identifiably different way than English speaking adults respond in English, and that native English speaking children demonstrate a…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Comparative Analysis, English, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGough, Philip B. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1993
Submits that children recognize their first words in a different way than they later decode. Compares the hypothesis that sight words are recognized as wholes to the hypothesis that sight words are recognized as parts. Finds support for the idea that first words are recognized by "selective association." (BS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education
Peer reviewedLindstromberg, Seth – ELT Journal, 1985
Discusses the uses and advantages of pictorial schemata in teaching vocabulary to second language learners. The advantages are that the learner is encouraged not only to deal with lexical ordering but also to look for such ordering when learning the language outside the classroom. Describes how to design a schemata. (SED)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Class Activities, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Williams, Ray – ESP Journal, 1985
Justifies the teaching of vocabulary recognition strategies from vocabulary development exercises and reviews five such strategies. These strategies are: (1) inferring from context, (2) identifying lexical familiarization, (3) unchaining nominal compounds, (4) synonym search, and (5) word analysis. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Clues, English for Special Purposes, Language Processing
Download full textEdiger, Marlow – 1996
Some tips can assist teachers in guiding each pupil to achieve more optimally, with respect to the ability to read well and reading comprehension. Among these 10 specific tips are: (1) teach individualized phonics in context; (2) assist the student to read in proper thought units by covering up words in sentences for clarification; (3) assist…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, Directed Reading Activity
Peer reviewedBaghban, Marcia – Reading Horizons, 1986
Summarizes and updates original study done on reading and writing development of a preschool child. (SRT)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language
