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Peer reviewedWang, Alvin Y.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
Findings from 4 experiments with a total of 218 college students, in which the retention interval for second-language vocabulary words was treated as a between-subjects factor, indicate that long-term forgetting is greater for learners instructed to use the keyword mnemonic than for learners engaged in rote rehearsal. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Memorization, Mnemonics
