In the context of very current trends in digital language education generally supported by governments and educational institutions, it seems necessary to evaluate efficiency these tools from various points psycholinguistics applied linguistics, mostly when comes learning a foreign/second (L2). Therefore, this paper aims vocabulary retention L2 using print text contrast with media. The research...

Working memory means a lot in incidental vocabulary learning and retention. The present study examines the correlation between two types of working memory—complex phonological short-term memory—and from captioned videos. After conducting an empirical research to 125 young learners English as foreign language with tests: operation span test, which measured complex memory, non-word repetition mem...

This paper introduces Daneman and Carpenter’s test of working memory span, and taking the use of Chinese language materials collected by Chinese Language Education Research Center’s bilingual corpus does a 3 week’s experiment with both English majors and non-English majors in Pass College of CTBU (Chongqing Technology and Business University). The experimental group has 10 minutes vocabulary cl...

Many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. This study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrelated, and hyponym sets based on Higa’s (1963) proposed continuum. A total of 120 Iranian intermed...

many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. this study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrelated, and hyponym sets based on higa’s (1963) proposed continuum. a total of 120 iranian intermed...

More than a century of research shows that increasing the gap between study episodes using the same material can enhance retention, yet little is known about how this so-called distributed practice effect unfolds over nontrivial periods. In two three-session laboratory studies, we examined the effects of gap on retention of foreign vocabulary, facts, and names of visual objects, with test delay...