An explorative study on media effects in vocabulary learning

Hans Giessen

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This article deals with the best media or media adequate ways to memorize vocabulary. An empirical study is presented in which test persons had to memorize vocabulary in an unknown language in three different ways. Thus, three experimental groups were presented Hungarian vocabulary to be learnt. The first group learnt a vocabulary list from a sheet of paper, the second one from the computer monitor, but without any animation, and the third one from an animated flash file. In the present article, the results of this study are reported and discussed.


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Computer-based learning; amygdala; hippocampus; vocabulary

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.4.147-154
Date of publication: 2019-12-30 00:00:00
Date of submission: 2019-04-24 15:49:25


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