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Lei, Daisy; Liu, Yushuang; van Hell, Janet G. – Language Learning, 2022
We examined the impact of images on novel word learning and consolidation, in a conceptual replication of Liu and Van Hell (2020). After participants had learned one set of novel words with definitions and images on Day 1 (remote words) and a different set on Day 2 (recent words), they judged the semantic relatedness of word pairs on Days 2 and 8…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Definitions, Learning Processes, Semantics
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Wong, Man Ho Ivy; Zhao, Helen; MacWhinney, Brian – Language Learning, 2018
This study investigated the effects of teaching English prepositions using schematic diagrams inspired by cognitive linguistics in a computer-based tutorial system called the English Preposition Tutor. Training was designed based on the theoretical framework of the Competition Model and a cognitive linguistic analysis of prepositions. Sixty-four…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Stevick, Earl W. – Language Learning, 1975
A procedure is described for using a visual aid to elicit from a student a relatively elaborate mental image. In the context of that procedure, certain aspects of what happens inside and between people in a language classroom are explored. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Language Instruction, Learning Theories, Personality, Second Language Learning