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<journal-id>0120-5927</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[How]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[How]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0120-5927</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Asociación Colombiana de Profesores de Inglés]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0120-59272018000200029</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.19183/how.25.2.410</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Can Working Memory Strategies Enhance English Vocabulary Learning?]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[¿Pueden las estrategias para entrenar la memoria de trabajo mejorar el aprendizaje de vocabulario en inglés?]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ibarra Santacruz]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Diana]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Martínez Ortega]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[David]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Nariño  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Pasto ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Mariana  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Pasto ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2018</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>25</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>29</fpage>
<lpage>47</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0120-59272018000200029&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0120-59272018000200029&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0120-59272018000200029&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract 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.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Este estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar cómo el entrenamiento de la memoria de trabajo puede contribuir a retener el vocabulario en inglés estudiado en clase a través de la implementación de algunas estrategias diseñadas para ejercitar este tipo de memoria. Dos grupos intactos de estudiantes en nivel básico: uno experimental, con 28 estudiantes, y otro de control, con 22 estudiantes, pertenecientes a los cursos de inglés como lengua extranjera ofrecidos en pregrado en una universidad colombiana hicieron parte de este estudio. Después de un periodo de 10 semanas, se evidenció que la mayoría de los estudiantes que recibieron la intervención mostraron mejora en su habilidad para memorizar y recordar el vocabulario estudiado en la clase, lo cual a su vez fortaleció su competencia el idioma extranjero.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[English language learning]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[vocabulary retention]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[working memory]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[aprendizaje del inglés]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[estrategias de memorización]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[memoria de trabajo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[retención de vocabulario]]></kwd>
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