Archive for July, 2010

Published by keith on 18 Jul 2010

How do Semantic Category Effects, Words of Different Levels of Concreteness and Syntactic Class Affect Vocabulary Retention in Young Asian EFL Learners?

Paper for publication taken from my MA research project. (zip file, PDF). Research into vocabulary learning has found that Semantic Category Effects (SCE) (HakkiErten and Tekin, 2008; Finkbeiner and Nicol, 2003) hinder retention when words are learnt in semantically related categories. Other variables such as a word’s concreteness and word class have also been found [...]

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Published by keith on 10 Jul 2010

My MA Education papers

Here are  my MA Education term papers (PDF) for you use read and use freely in your teaching or research. To reference these please use the address of the website and include a link directly to each file. If you do use them please let me know! Proposal for course materials The role of interest [...]

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