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Zarei, Abbas Ali; Adami, Saba – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2013
To investigate the effects of semantic mapping, thematic clustering, and notebook keeping on L2 vocabulary recognition and production, four groups of intermediate level learners in an EFL institute in Zanjan, Iran participated in the study. Three experimental groups consisted of semantic mapping, semantic feature analysis, and vocabulary notebook…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Semantics, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
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Steyvers, Mark; Tenenbaum, Joshua B. – Cognitive Science, 2005
We present statistical analyses of the large-scale structure of 3 types of semantic networks: word associations, WordNet, and Roget's Thesaurus. We show that they have a small-world structure, characterized by sparse connectivity, short average path lengths between words, and strong local clustering. In addition, the distributions of the number of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Internet, Associative Learning, Statistical Analysis