Helping learners engage with L2 words

Helping learners engage with L 2 words : the form - meaning fit

The pace at which new words are acquired is influenced by the degree of engagement with them on the part of the learner. Insights from Cognitive Linguistics into the non-arbitrary aspects of vocabulary can be turned into stimuli for such engagement. The majority of Cognitive Linguists‟ proposals for vocabulary teaching aim at helping learners appreciate the way a single word form can develop di...

Vocabulary teaching strategies and conceptual representations of words in L2 in children: evidence with novice learners.

A controversial issue in bilingual research is whether in the early stages of L2 learning, access to the conceptual system involves mediation of L1 lexical representations [Kroll, J. F., & Stewart, E. (1994). Category interference in translation and picture naming: Evidence for asymmetric connections between bilingual memory representations. Journal of Memory and Language, 33, 149-174] or a dir...

Engaging Collaborative Learners with Helping Agents

We present the results of a study in which we contrast alternative forms of collaborative learning support in the midst of a collaborative design task in which students negotiate between increasing power and increasing environmental friendliness. Our research question is whether interactive instructional support in collaborative learning environments is more effective when it is offered as soli...

Helping nephrologists become lifelong learners.

Ronald J. Falk,* Mark E. Rosenberg, Jerry Yee, Patrick T. Murray, and Tod Ibrahim *University of North Carolina Kidney Center and Division of Nephrology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Division of Nephrology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Division of Nephrology, Henry Ford Health Systems, Detroit, Michigan; Uni...

Clinical uncertainty: helping our learners.