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Direct linkChilton, Molly Welsh; Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
An experiment compared the impact of more and less semantically connected sentence contexts on vocabulary learning. Third graders (N = 40) were taught the definitions and meanings of six unfamiliar verbs: "anticipate," "attain," "devise," "restrain," "wield," and "persist." The verbs were…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Sentences, Semantics, Vignettes
Download full textEhri, Linnea C.; Muzio, Irene M. – 1973
This study explored the viability of several theories in describing adjective memory. For the study, college students were told either to form images or to learn sentences. A noun-prompted sentence recall task exposed their memory for adjectives modifying either subject nouns. Results revealed that subject modifiers were better remembered than…
Descriptors: Adjectives, College Students, Educational Research, Higher Education
