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A Field Experiment on Mnemonic and Conceptual Understanding among Chinese Elementary School Students
Direct linkKitty K. Y. Tsang; Shui-fong Lam – Chinese Education & Society, 2025
This study compared the effectiveness of two encoding strategies (peg system vs. conceptual understanding) on serial learning. Sixty Chinese 5th graders from a primary school in Hong Kong participated in training on the two strategies in two consecutive weeks. While half of the students learned peg system in the first week and conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mnemonics, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 5
Peer reviewedTurnage, Thomas W.; McGinnies, Elliott – American Journal of Psychology, 1973
The present study was undertaken to explore the influence of language (Chinese or English), meaningfulness, and mode of stimulus presentation on serial learning. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Chinese, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, English
Turnage, Thomas W.; McGinnies, Elliott – 1970
The study investigates the effects of linguistic medium (English vs. Chinese), mode of stimulus presentation (visual vs. auditory), and noun frequency on short-term serial recall and serial learning. The results indicate that auditory input facilitates learning for American subjects but not for Taiwanese subjects, who learned somewhat faster with…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
