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dc.contributor.authorFrances, Candice
dc.contributor.authorDe Bruin, Angela
dc.contributor.authorDunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-22T08:28:29Z
dc.date.available2021-01-22T08:28:29Z
dc.date.issued2020-10-07
dc.description.abstractLearning new content and vocabulary in a foreign language can be particularly difficult. Yet, there are educational programs that require people to study in a language they are not native speakers of. For this reason, it is important to understand how these learning processes work and possibly differ from native language learning, as well as to develop strategies to ease this process. The current study takes advantage of emotionality—operationally defined as positive valence and high arousal—to improve memory. In two experiments, the present paper addresses whether participants have more difficulty learning the names of objects they have never seen before in their foreign language and whether embedding them in a positive semantic context can help make learning easier. With this in mind, we had participants (with a minimum of a B2 level of English) in two experiments (43 participants in Experiment 1 and 54 in Experiment 2) read descriptions of made-up objects—either positive or neutral and either in their native or a foreign language. The effects of language varied with the difficulty of the task and measure used. In both cases, learning the words in a positive context improved learning. Importantly, the effect of emotionality was not modulated by language, suggesting that the effects of emotionality are independent of language and could potentially be a useful tool for improving foreign language vocabulary learning.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFrances, De Bruin, Dunabeitia Landaburu JA. The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning. PLOS ONE. 2020;15(10)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1844971
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0240252
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/20375
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.journalPLOS ONE
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.titleThe effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learningen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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