During vocabulary instruction, it is important to teach words until their representations are robust enough to be retained. For adults, the number of training sessions a target item is successfully retrieved during training predicts the likelihood of post-Training retention. To assess this relationship in children, we reanalyzed data from Gordon et al. (2021b, 2022). Four-to six-year-old children completed six training days with word form-object pairs and were tested one month later. Results indicate that the number of training sessions that a word form was retrieved was positively related to post-Training retention. We discuss implications for vocabulary instruction and interventions.
CITATION STYLE
Gordon, K. R., & Lowry, S. L. (2024). Fostering retention of word learning: The number of training sessions children retrieve words positively relates to post-Training retention. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000752
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.