Use of a mnemonic technique to teach young children foreign language vocabulary

Children 3 to 6 years of age learned simple Spanish vocabulary items using an adaptation of the keyword method of foreign language vocabulary learning. Using this version of the keyword method, the learner remembered a picture of the translation referent of the vocabulary item interacting with the referent of a concrete English word which sounded like part of the foreign word (the keyword). Children who used the keyword method remembered more vocabulary translations than children who were not instructed in keyword method usage.     

Teaching abstract vocabulary with the keyword method: effects on recall and comprehension

Twenty-five adolescents with learning disabilities were randomly assigned to either a keyword mnemonic condition or an experimenter-directed rehearsal condition and were individually taught 16 difficult vocabulary words, including 8 concrete and 8 abstract words. After an instructional period, students were given a test of literal recall as well as a comprehension test of their ability to apply newly acquired vocabulary words in a different context. Results indicated that mnemonically trained students outperformed control students on both abstract and concrete words, and on recall tests as well as on comprehension tests. Implications for vocabulary instruction as well as theories of learning disabilities are discussed.     

In search of the keyword method/vocabulary comprehension link

Previous research has indicated that the keyword method of vocabulary learning facilitates students' performance not just on simple tests of definition recall, but on comprehension-demanding tasks as well. The present study was conducted to determine whether the “comprehension” finding could be accounted for by keyword subjects' superior definition recall per se. The results generally supported that conclusion: When conditions and subjects within conditions were equated with respect to their initial levels of definition recall, the comprehension advantage of keyword subjects disappeared.     

The keyword method and children's vocabulary learning: An interaction with vocabulary knowledge

Fifth-grade students with either high or low levels of vocabulary knowledge were taught a list of new vocabulary words according to the mnemonic keyword method. The children were randomly assigned either to one of three keyword instructional conditions that varied in the degree of structure provided by the experimenter, or to a no-strategy control condition. All three variations of the keyword method facilitated students' vocabulary learning. Aptitude × treatment interactions involving vocabulary knowledge materialized, however, such that the degree of keyword method structure made far less of a difference for the high knowledge students than it did for the lows. In particular, when the children had to execute the dual components of the keyword method entirely on their own, low vocabulary knowledge students experienced considerably more difficulty than did highs.     

俄语言幽默的修辞手段初探

语言是人类交流的最主要工具,而语言中的幽默,则可以说是语言中的一种艺术所在。作为有着悠久历史文化沉淀的俄语,在不断地发展中渐渐地形成了自己独特的幽默语言艺术风格。本文就笔者多年的研究经验,谈一谈俄语当中的幽默修辞手段。     

浅谈对外汉语口语课词汇教学研究

运用适合的教学法对迅速扩大留学生的汉语词汇量,提高他们运用汉语词汇的能力非常重要。     

对外汉语教学中词汇教学的思考

对外汉语教学作为一门独立的学科是在1978年被明确地提出来的,始于吕必松教授在中国社会科学院召开的北京地区语言科规划座谈会上的提议。随着中华民族的不断发展和壮大,对外汉语教学也得到了很大的发展,教学水平不断提高,只是汉字教学一直没得到应有的重视和发展,汉字教学还非常落后。本文以字本文为角度,通过对汉字的分析,根据对外汉字教学的特殊性,提出一些比较适合对外汉字教学的教学方法。     

猜单词·学单词

Let's have a test and see how large your vocabulary is!!! I.eddy A.a circular movement of water,wind,dust,mist, smoke,etc. B.a continuously moving mass of liquid or gas,esp. one flowing through slower-moving liquid or gas. C.the way or direction in which anything,esp.water moves.     

关于俄英双语对比教学的设想

针对部分高校俄语专业招收俄英双语制学生的现状,配合“宽基础、高素质、有特长、适应广”的人才培养目标,我们提出俄英双语对比教学的设想。通过对比教学使学生掌握俄英语音、语法、词汇、修辞、语言国情等知识,再通过交际情景发展学生跨化交际的技巧和能力,最终达到语言知识和言语能力的完美结合。这正是我们外语教学的最终目的。     

浅论非物质文化在汉语词汇中的反映

语言与文化密不可分,语言的每一个层面都蕴涵着文化因素,尤其是词汇,几乎可以说是一个民族文化的镜子。本文主要从民俗文化、制度文化、具象化思维、宗教信仰等四个方面探讨非物质文化在汉语词汇中的反映。     

新词新语在现代汉语词汇中的新貌

近年来,随着社会的发展,现代汉语词汇呈现出前所未有的繁荣.经过归纳和整理,我主要从校园流行语、网络语、时尚语的流行,缩略语的增多,换字词语的使用,译词的增加,专业术语普通化,新词新义和旧词新用及一些名词动词形容词的新用八个方面来论述.从总体上看,新词新语呈现出从简从易,联想自由,幽默形象的特征.     

猜单词·学单词(英文)

Let’s have a test and see how large your vocabulary is!!! 1.tranquila.free from anxiety,worry,etc.     

猜单词·学单词(英文)

Let's have a test and see how large your vocabulary is!!! 1.voucher A.a bill for goods received B.a kind of ticket that may be used instead of money for a particular purpose C.a piece of paper to be fixed on something or a mark made with ink on paper,to show that something has been done,paid,bought,sold,given,etc.     

猜单词·学单词(英文)

Let's have a test and see how large your vocabulary is!!!1.scaleA.one of many sharp needle-like parts of someanimalsB.one of the small thin,usu.hard plates of materialwhich cover the bodies of many fish and reptilesC.one of the many parts of the covering which growson a bird's body     

浅谈俄汉语的民族性在词汇上的体现

语言的发展和变化受社会和文化的影响、制约 ,社会与文化的发展和变化也不可避免地反映在语言之中 ,尤其是词汇中所蕴含的文化语义 ,鲜明地体现了民族性     

社会因素赋予俄语语言的时代色彩

语言是社会的文化标签,社会的动荡、时代的变迁给俄语产生了强大的影响与猛烈的冲击,由此出现了新词不断产生,外来语大量涌入,旧词有的被淘汰,有的则重新复活等各种语言现象.本文即尝试从政治经济的变革、宗教信仰的复兴、文化思想的自由化等几方面来浅述社会诸多因素所赋予俄语语言的时代色彩.