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Greenfield, Patricia Marks; Alvarez, Maria Gabriela – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1980
Differing amounts and ordering of pictorial content were compared to determine their effect on learning word-referent relations in a second language. Findings indicated there is an optimal level at which nonverbal context facilitates the process of inferring word meanings in a foreign language. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, High School Students, Immersion Programs, Language Acquisition
Cole, Michael; And Others – 1971
After intensively studying for several years the thinking processes of members of a tribal group in Western Africa, the Kpelle, the authors examine the relation between culture and cognitive development. The following issues are discussed: (1) an analysis of the terms "culture" and "cognition"; (2) an ethnographic description of the Kpelle…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes