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Download full textRaugh, Michael R.; Atkinson, Richard C. – 1974
Four experiments are reported evaluating the effectiveness of a mnemonic procedure, called the keyword method, for learning a foreign language vocabulary. The method divides the study of a vocabulary item into two stages. The first stage involves associating the spoken foreign word to an English word that sounds like some part of the foreign word;…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Instruction, Memory
Atkinson, Richard C.; Raugh, Michael R. – 1974
An experiment is reported evaluating the effectiveness of a mnemonic procedure, called the keyword method, for learning a foreign language vocabulary. The method divides the study of a vocabulary item into two stages. The first stage requires S to associate the spoken foreign word to an English word (the keyword) that sounds like some part of the…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Instruction, Memory
Peer reviewedSchmelzer, Henry – Foreign Language Annals, 1979
Presents a method which draws upon students' imagination, creativity, and associative abilities and engages them in the language learning process. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Language Instruction
Peer reviewedRichards, Jack C. – TESOL Quarterly, 1976
Linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic aspects of word knowledge are examined. Vocabulary techniques are discussed according to how they build up word frequency, vocabulary growth in native speakers, underlying forms, semantic structure, word association, and case relations. (SCC)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedSell, Rainer – Foreign Language Annals, 1977
Associative speaking as a method of making oral communication the central activity in foreign language classes as early as the second semester is described. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Conversational Language Courses, Higher Education, Language Instruction
Rivers, Wilga M.; And Others – American Foreign Language Teacher, 1973
Article extracted from A Practical Guide to the Teaching of French/German/Spanish'' (three separate books), Oxford University Press. (DD)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Dictionaries, Form Classes (Languages), Language Instruction
Raugh, Michael R.; And Others – 1975
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a mnemonic procedure, called the keyword method, for teaching a large Russian language vocabulary to college students. The method divides the study of a vocabulary item into two stages. The first stage requires the student to associate the spoken Russian word to an English word (the keyword) that sounds…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, College Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language Instruction
Crable, Elaine Ann; Johnson, David – 1976
A study was carried out to test the hypothesis that a difference exists between the results of a paradigmatic/syntagmatic word association test given in an individual's native language and in his second language. The sample used in this study consists of 23 Iranian officers attending a course at Air University in Alabama. Their primary language is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes
Greenfield, Patricia Marks; Alvarez, Maria Gabriela – 1978
Nonverbal context is important in the language acquisition process. The present study compares different amounts and ordering of pictorial context with respect to their effect on learning word-referent relations in a second language. Twenty-five monolingual English-speaking high school students were shown twenty Spanish sentences and pictures of…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues
