Gesture-enriched L2 vocabulary learning benefits 14-year-olds more than picture enrichment, while 12-year-olds benefit equivalently from both¶

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q3 i3 Eighth graders showed a significant gesture-over-picture benefit (d = 0.85), which sixth graders did not (d = 0.08), yielding a learning condition × grade interaction. → Brian Mathias 2022

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Brian Mathias 2022¶

Brian Mathias, Christian Andrä, Anika Schwager, Manuela Macedonia, Katharina von Kriegstein. (2022). Twelve- and Fourteen-Year-Old School Children Differentially Benefit from Sensorimotor- and Multisensory-Enriched Vocabulary Training. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-021-09648-z

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Mixed effects modeling of composite vocabulary scores from 75 German high school children (39 sixth graders, 36 eighth graders) in a 3×3×1×2 mixed design. "gesture enrichment enhanced learning outcomes even more than picture enrichment for the eighth graders (β = 0.95, t = 3.56, p = 0.005, d = 0.85), which was not the case for the sixth graders (β = 0.09, t = 0.35, p = 0.99, d = 0.08)".

"Mixed effects modeling of children's vocabulary test scores revealed an interaction between the children's grade level and the learning condition (χ2 (2, N = 75) = 5.70, p = 0.04, v = 0.19"

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