بررسی تاثیر حافظه کوتاه مدت بر توانایی یادگیری واژگان زبان انگلیسی فراگیران فارسی زبان از طریق تلفن همراه

Abstract

the present study set out to combine the cognitive theories of education and cell phone as one of the important device in m-learning and sought how Iranian learners of the English language experience learning L2 vocabularies. to that end, as many as 161 L2 learners, aged 18-23, were homogenized through a language proficiency test and then placed into four different short-term memory (STM) ability groups, using visual and verbal short-term memory test (Chen, et al., 2005). Also, cell-phone based vocabulary presentations with different annotations (i.e., pictorial vs. written annotations), were already prepared and run on the learners' cell phones through Bluetooth application. Finally they were evaluated on their recognition and recall of vocabulary items taught. The results indicated that delivery of materials with pictorial or written annotation to learners with high-visual and high-verbal abilities results in better vocabulary learning. Also, delivery of materials with pictorial annotation to the learners with written annotation to the learners with high-verbal ability results in better vocabulary learning. Low-visual and low-verbal ability group also showed better results under no annotation condition. The results of the study point to the efficacy of congruity between the mode of material representation and learner's cognitive orientations.

Keywords

• بازنمایی چند رسانه‌ای، حافظه کوتاه مدت ، یادگیری از طریق موبایل، نظریه شناختی ، یادگیری واژگان