Word games such as crossword puzzles are widely used in education to help familiarize
students with technical vocabulary. Despite an extensive literature discussing their use, few …

It has long been known that cues can be used to improve performance on memory recall
tasks. There is evidence to suggest additional cues provide further benefit, presumably by …

The skills required to solve crossword puzzles involve two important aspects of lexical
memory: semantic information in the form of clues that indicate the meaning of the answer …

Although word stem completion is commonly used to understand verbal fluency, lexical
access, and incidental learning, no formal computational model of the process has been …

Fluency in a second language (L2) is one of the most important skills for the modern world.
However, adults learning a new language face many obstacles, including motivation, time …

A number of models of word structure represent orthography in terms of features indexing
individual letters and adjacent letter pairs within the word. This permits word parts to be …

Strengthening semantic and orthographic associations among words in a lexicon may help
to improve memory processes related to fluent organizing and retrieval of language. In the …

This dissertation examined the relationship between the acquisition and recall of English
language vocabulary. This study explored 2 different learning recall strategies to determine …

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