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Learning and Short-Term Recall by Chinese and American Students as a Function of Language, Mode of Presentation, and Noun Frequency.

Turnage, Thomas W.; McGinnies, Elliott – 1970

The study investigates the effects of linguistic medium (English vs. Chinese), mode of stimulus presentation (visual vs. auditory), and noun frequency on short-term serial recall and serial learning. The results indicate that auditory input facilitates learning for American subjects but not for Taiwanese subjects, who learned somewhat faster with…

Descriptors: Attitudes, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies

A Series of Experiments Concerning the Relationship between Learning and the Structural Importance of Linguistic Subunits. Final Report.

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Johnson, Ronald E. – 1970

A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…

Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Experiments, Fiction