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Peer reviewedSugden, David; Newall, Margaret – British Journal of Special Education, 1987
Semantic elaboration, a language-based mnemonic strategy, was taught to 15 students (aged five to nine years) with moderate learning difficulties over a six-month period, using pictures as stimuli. Among reported results was an improvement in overall performance on memorization of pairs of pictures. Generalization to items not used during teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Generalization, Language Processing, Language Skills
Peer reviewedSchneiderman, E. I.; Desmarais, C. – Second Language Research, 1988
Examination of memorization strategies, cerebral dominance and lateralizations, and other characteristics of two adults who acquired second language fluency after puberty supported hypotheses concerning neurocognitive flexibility as a substrate underlying talent for second language learning. (CB)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academically Gifted, Adult Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions
