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Pressley, 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
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Appel, Rene – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989
Analysis of the responses of monolingual Dutch and bilingual Turkish, Moroccan, and Surinamese children living in the Netherlands to word association and sorting tasks revealed no significant differences among the groups. Results of the study indicated that bilingualism does not affect cognitive-linguistic development. (22 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Berber Languages, Bilingualism, Child Language