Imagery and verbal coding approaches in Chinese vocabulary instruction

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 485-499

  Shen, Helen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese words; dual coding; learning Chinese; vocabulary instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957918752     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168810375370     Document Type: Article

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