The effects of age and production mode on the bilingual performance of Turkish learners of English in a serial recall task

International Journal of Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-17

  Akca, Catherine ^a   Elkilic, Gencer ^a  

^a KAFKAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Foreign language; Oral and written production modes; Serial recall; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; PHONETICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; SERIAL LEARNING; TURKEY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; WRITING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751684689     PISSN: 00207594     EISSN: 1464066X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207594.2010.503762     Document Type: Article

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