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Pickering, Michael – System, 1982
Describes experiment involving categorization of foreign words into abstract and concrete ratings to determine which were better learned under word pair and context conditions. Native language sentences were prepared in which foreign words were inserted to test whether foreign language students could correctly choose native words to replace…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Processing, Second Language Instruction, Semantics