Both gesture and picture enrichment enhanced children's test performance compared with non-enriched learning, with benefits persisting up to 6 months for concrete and abstract words¶

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q3 i? Both enrichment types enhanced performance versus non-enriched learning, and benefits persisted up to 6 months after training for both concrete and abstract words. → Andrä 2020

Evidence¶

Andrä 2020¶

Andrä, C., Mathias, B., Schwager, A., Macedonia, M., & von Kriegstein, K. (2020). Learning Foreign Language Vocabulary with Gestures and Pictures Enhances Vocabulary Memory for Several Months Post-Learning in Eight-Year-Old School Children. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09527-z

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Summary of the three-experiment program: 54, 43, and 51 eight-year-old children trained 5 consecutive days on auditorily presented English vocabulary, tested at 3 days, 2 months, and 6 months post-learning via recall and translation tests. Benefits "persisted up to 6 months after training."

"B oth gesture and picture enrichment enhanced children 's test performance compared with non-enriched learning. Bene- fits of gesture and picture enrichment per sisted up to 6 months after training and occurred for both concrete and abstract words."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Children's age did not moderate gesture enrichment benefits on vocabulary test performance in Experiment 1 — related
• Children's L2 translation and free recall scores were higher for concrete than abstract nouns across experiments — related
• Gesture-enriched learning improves 8-year-olds' L2 vocabulary translation and free recall compared with non-enriched learning, persisting up to 6 months — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Gesture enrichment specifically aided translation of abstract words in Experiment 1, but this word-type specificity did not replicate in Experiment 2 — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Gesture and picture enrichment produced similar benefits on children's L2 vocabulary learning, contrary to adult findings favoring gestures — related
• Concrete L2 words are learned better than abstract words overall, but this concreteness advantage appears only in 14-year-olds — related
• Picture and gesture enrichment benefit children's learning of both concrete and abstract L2 words — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Enrichment benefits on children's L2 vocabulary persist up to 6 months post-learning without diminishing relative to non-enriched learning — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• For very young children, more abstract vocabulary terms such as afloat, haste, mellow, noticeable, outward and skill are relatively more difficult, while more concrete terms such as dungeon, envelope, eyelash, nerve, plumbing, pork and snip are learned earlier. — related