A test of foreign language acquisition: Paired-association learning

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 211-221

  Krug, Kevin ^a   Shafer, Ted ^a   Dardick, William ^a   Magalis, Chris ^a   Parenté, Rick ^a  

^a TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING DISORDER; LEARNING TEST; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 8744292919     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.781     Document Type: Article

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