Effects on vocabulary acquisition of presenting new words in semantic sets versus semantically unrelated sets

System

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 407-422

  Erten, Ismail Hakki ^a   Tekin, Mustafa ^a  

^a ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Interference theory; Mental lexicon; Semantic set; Thematic set; Vocabulary recall

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949096962     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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