SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.25 issue2The Role of Language in the Identity Formation of Transnational EFL TeachersNeeds Analysis in English for Academic Purposes: The Case of Teaching Assistants at the University of Khartoum author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • On index processCited by Google
  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO
  • On index processSimilars in Google

Share


How

Print version ISSN 0120-5927

Abstract

IBARRA SANTACRUZ, Diana  and  MARTINEZ ORTEGA, David. Can Working Memory Strategies Enhance English Vocabulary Learning?. How [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.2, pp.29-47. ISSN 0120-5927.  https://doi.org/10.19183/how.25.2.410.

This study sought to determine how working memory training could contribute to retaining vocabulary studied in English lessons through the implementation of a set of strategies. Two intact groups of beginners: one experimental, with 28 students, and one control group, with 22 students, belonging to undergraduate English as a foreign language courses at a Colombian university were involved in the study. After being exposed to a series of memory strategies for a period of 10 weeks, it was evident that most learners in the experimental group benefited from the intervention and showed gradual progress in the retention and retrieval of the words studied in the lessons; thus, improving their overall competence in the foreign language.

Keywords : English language learning; memory strategies; vocabulary retention; working memory.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in English     · English ( pdf )