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Lindgren, Paul D. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Research studies repeatedly emphasize the importance of vocabulary capabilities to a large variety of academic activities. This study compared a learning strategy that exclusively involved the visual review of vocabulary word-definition pairs to a strategy that, in addition, prompted participants to attempt free-recall retrieval of words to match…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Learning Strategies, Learning Activities, Definitions
Sachs, Rebecca Raewyn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Second language acquisition research into the effects of corrective feedback has investigated a variety of learning targets using a wide range of implicit and explicit feedback types (Li, 2010). To date, however, its linguistic focus has been limited to theoretically noticeable surface features (Carroll, 2001; Schmidt, 2001), and researchers have…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Error Correction
Warren, David – ProQuest LLC, 2009
For the last five decades, the medial temporal lobes have been generally understood to facilitate enduring representation of certain kinds of information. In particular, knowledge about the relations among items and concepts appears to rely on that region of the brain. Recent results suggest that those same structures also play a subtle role in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Visual Stimuli, Play, Intervals