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Peer reviewedPressley, Michael – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
The keyword method helped elementary school children learn Spanish vocabulary, especially when they were provided with relevant visual images. The Spanish word was associated with an English keyword sounding like the foreign word, and the picture illustrated some interaction between the keyword and the English translation. (GDC)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Associative Learning, Basic Vocabulary, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedPressley, Michael; Ahmad, Maheen – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1986
Hint, pegword experience, and hint plus pegword experience conditions were evaluated against three other conditions: (1) a no strategy control condition; (2) an instructional treatment to maximize elaborative strategy use; and (3) an instructional treatment to minimize elaborative strategy use. Results clarify the nature of elaborative production…
Descriptors: Adults, Associative Learning, Context Clues, Higher Education
