Effects of stimulus characteristics and background music on foreign language vocabulary learning and forgetting

Language Learning

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 463-506

  De Groot, Annette M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33746834116     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2006.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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