Contextual diversity facilitates learning new words in the classroom.

In the field of word recognition and reading, it is commonly assumed that frequently repeated words create more accessible memory traces than infrequently repeated words, thus capturing the word-frequency effect. Nevertheless, recent research has shown that a seemingly related factor, contextual div...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eva Rosa, José Luis Tapia, Manuel Perea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5460874?pdf=render