Comparing and combining retrieval practice and the keyword mnemonic for foreign vocabulary learning

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 499-526

  Fritz, Catherine O ^a   Morris, Peter E ^b   Acton, Mandy ^a   Voelkel, Anna R ^a   Etkind, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 34248374461     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1287     Document Type: Article

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