Improvements of Statistical Learning Skills Allow Older Children to Go Beyond Single-Hypothesis Testing When Learning Words

Testing beyond words: using tests to enhance visuospatial map learning.

Psychological research shows that learning can be powerfully enhanced through testing, but this finding has so far been confined to memory tasks requiring verbal responses. We explored whether testing can enhance learning of visuospatial information in maps. Fifty subjects each studied two maps, one through conventional study, and the other through computer-prompted tests. For the tests, the su...

Statistical Aggregation and Hypothesis Testing Mechanisms Interact during Word Learning

Referential utterances are by their nature ambiguous to novice language learners. Each utterance consists of multiple layers of information that must be decoded: 1) the linguistic structure (how the sounds and words should be packaged into meaningful units), 2) the world structure (how people, objects and actions in the world relate to one another and which is the current focus of attention) an...

an investigation into the impact of m-game-enhanced blended module of teaching and learning on iranian students english literacy skills and subskills learning

پژوهش حاضر با پیوند رسانه های قدیمی و جدید یاد دهی و یادگیری _طرح داستان و بازی های همراه ــ در یک پو دمان ترکیبی، در صدد قیاس شیوه ی یاد دهی و یادگیری مبتنی بر بازی مهارت های فرعی و اصلی واژگان، خواندن و نوشتار سواد انگلیسی با شیوه های مرسوم آن بود. به این منظور با کاربرد یک طرح سه گانه همراه با الگوی نظام آموزشی (تومی، 2010)، بازی های از پیش ساخته شده و بومی قابل عرضه از طریق ارتباطات سیّار (ب...

The surprising power of statistical learning: When fragment knowledge leads to false memories of unheard words

Word-segmentation, that is, the extraction of words from fluent speech, is one of the first problems language learners have to master. It is generally believed that statistical processes, in particular those tracking ‘‘transitional probabilities” (TPs), are important to word-segmentation. However, there is evidence that word forms are stored in memory formats differing from those that can be co...

Beyond Statistical Learning in Syntax