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ERIC Number: EJ601532
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
What Is Hard To Learn Is Easy To Forget: The Roles of Word Concreteness, Cognate Status, and Word Frequency in Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning and Forgetting.
de Groot, Annette M. B.; Keijzer, Rineke
Language Learning, v50 n1 p1-56 Mar 2000
Looked at the foreign language vocabulary learning and forgetting in experienced foreign language learners, using a paired-associate training technique in which native-language words were paired with pseudowords. Cognates and concrete words were easier to learn and less susceptible to forgetting than noncognates and abstract words. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Language Tests, Recall (Psychology), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Testing, Vocabulary Development
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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