A Comparison of Vocabulary Banks and Scripts on Native English-speaking Students’ Acquisition of Italian
Description:
The study applied behavior analytic principles to foreign language instruction in a college classroom. Two study methods, vocabulary banks and scripts, were compared by assessing the effects on Italian language acquisition, retention, and generalization. Results indicate that students without prior exposure to Italian engaged in more exchanges and emitted more words in script tests compared to vocabulary bank tests. Participants with at least two classes in Italian prior to the study engaged in…
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Date:
May 2012
Creator:
Dean, Brittany L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries