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Li, Yixun; Hui, Yi; Li, Hong; Liu, Xiangping – Annals of Dyslexia, 2021
The present study investigated whether and to what extent children with dyslexia utilize visual and phonetic strategies in character learning. A paired associate learning paradigm was used in two experiments to train children's pronunciation-orthography associations of novel words, with a recall task 1 week later for retention. Experiment 1…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Mandarin Chinese, Dyslexia
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Berntsen, Dorthe; Staugaard, Soren Rislov; Sorensen, Louise Maria Torp – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
Involuntary episodic memories are memories of events that come to mind spontaneously, that is, with no preceding retrieval attempts. They are common in daily life and observed in a range of clinical disorders in the form of negative, intrusive recollections or flashbacks. However, little is known about their underlying mechanisms. Here we report a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recall (Psychology), Attention, Information Retrieval
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Lai, Feng-Qi; Newby, Timothy J. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
The present study compared the impact of different categories of graphics used within a complex learning task. One hundred eighty five native English speaking undergraduates participated in a task that required learning 18 Chinese radicals and their English equivalent translations. A post-test only control group design compared performance…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Cues, Animation, Undergraduate Students
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Nakata, Tatsuya – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
The present study aims to conduct a comprehensive investigation of flashcard software for learning vocabulary in a second language. Nine flashcard programs were analysed using 17 criteria derived from previous studies on flashcard learning as well as paired-associate learning. Results suggest that in general, most programs have been developed in a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism