Brief Research Report : The Effectiveness of The Keyword Method for Receptive and Productive Foreign Vocabulary Learning in The Elderly  

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Pascoe, Kate ; Gruneberg, Michael M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Contemporary Educational Psychology vol. 21 no. 01 (Jan. 1996), page 102-109.
Topik: VOCABULARY; experiment; foreign; vocabulary learning; elderly; productive; keyword; effectiveness

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: C15 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper reports on an experiment in which a group of elderly healthy active female subjects were required to learn 20 Spanish vocabulary items using the keyword metbod of foreign language learning. This involves using a mediator to link an English word to its Spanish target. As West (1995) has recently pointed out, despite considerable evidence that the keyword method is effective for normal populations, there is little work studying its effectiveness in elderly. populations. The present study shows that the keyword method significantly enhances recall of the English word given its Spanish equivalent (receptive learning) and significantly enhances the learning of Spanish equivalents of English words (productive learning) using a "soft" criterion of correctness, compared to a control group given no instruction on how to learn. This latter finding fits in with previous studies showing the effectiveness of the keyword method in productive learning to the extent that the keyword and the target word overlap (Pressley, Levin, Hall, Hiller, & Berry, 1980). The methodological problems of investigating the keyword method where images as well as the keyword are provided are discussed, as are the practical implications of the study.

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