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Chambrè, Susan J.; Ehri, Linnea C.; Ness, Molly – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
An experiment examined orthographic facilitation of vocabulary learning, that is, whether showing students spellings of novel words during learning helps them remember the words when spellings are no longer present. The purpose was to determine whether having students decode the spellings of vocabulary words improves word learning over passive…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spelling, Written Language, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Braasch, Jason L. G.; McCabe, Rebecca M.; Daniel, Frances – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
The current experiments systematically examined semantic content integration as a mechanism for explaining source inattention and forgetting when reading-to-remember multiple texts. For all 3 experiments, degree of semantic overlap was manipulated amongst messages provided by various information sources. In Experiment 1, readers' source…
Descriptors: Memory, Experiments, Semantics, Recall (Psychology)
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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study investigated the roles of associative learning and linguistic knowledge, in particular phonological and semantic knowledge, in word learning of Chinese readers using a cross-sectional design. Extending past research in associative learning using existing Chinese characters as word stimuli, this study resorted to pseudowords and invented…
Descriptors: Chinese, Associative Learning, Semantics, Grade 2