The concreteness effect and the bilingual lexicon: The impact of visual stimuli attachment on meaning recall of abstract L2 words

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 449-466

  Farley, Andrew P ^a   Ramonda, Kris ^b   Liu, Xun ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RITSUMEIKAN ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

abstract; concreteness effect; dual coding theory; imagery system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869174338     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168812436910     Document Type: Article

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