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Gavin Bui; Weiran Zhang – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This mixed-methods study investigated the impact of musical lyrics and working memory capacities on second language (L2) English reading comprehension among adult Chinese native speakers. Participants were 57 adult ESL learners with advanced L2 proficiency, divided into high and low working memory capacity groups based on a pre-test. They…
Descriptors: Music, Singing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Genc, Hümeyra; Gülözer, Kaine – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
The effectiveness of instructional designs has been examined in several recent educational studies. Instructional design, both traditional and technology-based, can sometimes overload a learner's cognitive effort and thus negatively influence learning performance. The same learning material can induce different amounts of memory load as a result…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension