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Peer reviewedAtkins, Paul W. B.; Baddeley, Alan D. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
Tested the hypothesis that individual differences in immediate-verbal-memory span predict success in second-language vocabulary acquisition. In the two-session study, adult subjects learned 56 English-Finnish translations. Tested one week later, subjects were less likely to remember those words they had difficulty learning, even though they had…
Descriptors: Adults, English, Finnish, Individual Differences
