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The Letter Position as Facilitative or Debilitative in Word Retention of EFL Learners
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Marefat, Hamideh; Shirazi, Masoumeh Ahmadi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
This study concerns the effect of letter position on the retention of words by EFL learners. Given the fact that everyone has a mental lexicon, we would suggest that words are possibly organized in alphabetical order, then it would be likely for the learners to retain the words easily when exposed to the first letters of given words. The study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Retention (Psychology)
The Impact of Teaching Direct Learning Strategies on the Retention of Vocabulary by EFL Learners.
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Marefat, Hamideh; Shirazi, Masoomeh Ahmadi – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2003
Examined the effect of teaching direct learning strategies and their subcategories on the vocabulary retention of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners. Participants of the study were 60 female EFL learners, aged 15-17. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Females, Learning Strategies