The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning.

ABSTRACT: Learning new content and vocabulary in a foreign language can be particularly difficult. Yet, there are educational programs that require people to study in a language they are not native speakers of. For this reason, it is important to understand how these learning processes work and possibly differ from native language learning, as well as to develop strategies to ease this process. The current study takes advantage of emotionality-operationally defined as positive valence and high arousal-to improve memory. In two experiments, the present paper addresses whether participants have more difficulty learning the names of objects they have never seen before in their foreign language and whether embedding them in a positive semantic context can help make learning easier. With this in mind, we

SUBMITTER: Frances C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540870 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature