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Pressley, Michael; And Others – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1984
Results of five experiments in which adults and children were exposed to two study strategies for vocabulary learning: (1) repetition of words with meanings and (2) associative elaboration (the keyword method). Subjects were asked to choose one of the two study methods for learning a 24-item list of new vocabulary words. (SL)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Tests
Moeser, Shannon Dawn – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
College students were presented with an artificial language in which spoken nonsense words were correlated with visual references. Inferences regarding vocabulary acquisition were drawn, and it was suggested that the processing of the language was mediated through a semantic memory system. (CK)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Language Learning Levels, Memory, Second Language Learning
