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Schüler, Anne; Mayer, Maria Gabriela – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
In this study we investigated whether the beneficial effect of adding illustrations to text can be explained by the fact that illustrations facilitate analogous mental representation construction from text in visuospatial working memory. For this the secondary task paradigm was used. It was expected that the secondary task interfered only with…
Descriptors: Illustrations, Instructional Materials, Reading Processes, Reading Materials
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Khazaie, Saeed; Ketabi, Saeed – English Language Teaching, 2011
As mobile connectedness continues to sweep across the landscape, the value of deploying mobile technology at the service of learning and teaching seems to be both self-evident and unavoidable. To this end, this study employed multimedia to develop three types of vocabulary learning materials. Due to the importance of short-term memory in the realm…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Handheld Devices, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning