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Keyword - Adolescent and Adult

Research Summaries

Clay, F., Bowers, J.S., Davis, C.J., & Hanley, D.A. (2007). Teaching adults new words: The role of practice and consolidation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 970-976.

Kossack, S. (2007). Comparing the effects of high and low learning pathway instructional approaches on vocabulary mastery of middle school at-risk learners. The International Journal of Learning, 14, 199-206.

Leach, L., & Samuel, A. (2007). Lexical configuration and lexical engagement: When adults learn new words. Cognitive Psychology, 55(4), 306-353.

Long, L. L., & Shaw, R. J. (2000). Adult age differences in vocabulary acquisition. Educational Gerontology, 26, 651-664.

Pankratz, M., Morrison, A., & Plante, E. (2004). Difference in standard scores of adults on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (Revised and Third Edition). Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 714-718.

Parault, S.J. (2006). Sound symbolic word learning in written context. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 31, 228-252.

Perfetti, C., Wlotko, E., & Hart, L.A. (2005). Word learning and individual differences in word learning reflected in event-related potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 31, 1281-1292