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Peer reviewedWaring, Robert – System, 1997
Examines the effects of learning words grouped in semantic sets, using Japanese words paired with artificial words. A principal finding was that there was a main effect against learning semantically related words at the same time. The article concludes that presenting students with wordlists of new words in semantic clusters, rather than in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cluster Grouping, College Students, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFulcher, Glenn – System, 1997
Addresses the accessibility of texts produced by the Overseas Development Administration. This research analyzes a corpus of texts and shows that factors making the texts difficult include poor linguistic structure, contextual structure, conceptual structure, and unclear operationalisation of the reader-writer relationship. (18 references)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audience Awareness, Cluster Grouping, Concept Formation
