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Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
In a paired associate task, readers and prereaders were taught five words as oral responses, each word paired with a distinctive nonsense figure. The results raise doubts about the effectiveness of teaching beginning readers sight vocabulary words printed on flash cards. (RC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Elementary Education, Paired Associate Learning
Peer reviewedMatsuda, Noriyuki; Robbins, Donald – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
Using recognition tests with new and old exemplars (multiple-component characters) and prototypes (common components), the traditional language learning technique of paired-associate training with exemplars of Chinese characters and specific English translations led to the poorest performance of the three methods tested. Learning either exemplars…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Chinese, College Students, Distinctive Features (Language)
