La mnemotecnia de la palabra clave aplicada a vocabulario gallego de baja frecuencia en estudiantes bilingües

  1. Campos, Alfredo 1
  2. Díaz, Jessica 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Journal:
Revista de estudios e investigación en psicología y educación

ISSN: 2386-7418

Year of publication: 2018

Volume: 5

Issue: 1

Pages: 51-58

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17979/REIPE.2018.5.1.3432 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Keyword mnemonics is a mnemonic rule specially used during the learning process of a foreign language. In this study we assessed if the keyword mnemonics influenced the learning of the meaning of low frequency Galician words, and also if the participants' imaging ability influenced this learning process. We selected a group of 111 Compulsory Secondary Education students, who are asked to learn a list of 20 low frequency Galician words, using either the repetition or the keyword method. It was found that the keyword method was more effective than the repetition method in this learning. The participants with high vividness of image remembered a greater number of translations of the Galician words than those that showed low image vividness. New studies are required about keyword mnemonics applied to minority languages, such as Galician language.

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