Young Children's Learning of Foreign Language Vocabulary: A Sentence Variation of the Keyword Method.

Pressley, Michael; And Others

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Young Children's Learning of Foreign Language Vocabulary: A Sentence Variation of the Keyword Method.

Pressley, Michael; And Others

Contemporary Educational Psychology, v5 n1 p22-29 Jan 1980

The keyword method of foreign language learning was adapted for young children learning Spanish. Rather than constructing visual images relating to the word pair, the children generated sentences. Both second- and fifth-grade students experienced large vocabulary gains. (Author/GDC)

Descriptors: Cues, Elementary Education, FLES, Grade 2, Grade 5, Mnemonics, Paired Associate Learning, Second Language Learning, Sentences, Spanish, Verbal Stimuli, Vocabulary Development

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Language: English

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