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Kiwamu Kasahara; Akifumi Yanagisawa – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Research has shown that learning a known-and-unknown word combination leads to greater learning than learning an unknown word alone (Kasahara, 2010, 2011). These studies found that attaching a known adjective to an unknown noun can help learners remember the unknown noun. Kasahara (2015) found that a known verb can serve as an effective cue to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Recall (Psychology), Comparative Analysis
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Vukatana, Ena; Curtin, Suzanne; Graham, Susan A. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
We investigated 16- and 20-month-olds' flexibility in mapping phonotactically illegal words to objects. Using an associative word-learning task, infants were presented with a training phase that either highlighted or did not highlight the referential status of a novel label. Infants were then habituated to two novel objects, each paired with a…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Foreign Countries, Phonology
Rivers, Wilga M.; And Others – American Foreign Language Teacher, 1973
Article extracted from A Practical Guide to the Teaching of French/German/Spanish'' (three separate books), Oxford University Press. (DD)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Dictionaries, Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction