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Cycowicz, Yael M.; And Others – 1994
Pictures are often used by cognitive psychologists to investigate the development of cognitive functions. Different attributes of the picture, such as object or picture familiarity, word frequency, and age of acquisition, are known to correlate with naming latency and to affect memory, particularly retrieval processes. But without the use of…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Wilberschied, Lee; Berman, Peiyan M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
To investigate differences in achievement in foreign language listening comprehension, 61 students in a Foreign Language in an Elementary School (FLES) program were studied during instruction using video clips from authentic Chinese TV broadcasts in two advance organizer conditions. The first type of advance organizer consisted of written words…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension, FLES