Express: Learning new words via reading: the influence of emotional narrative context on learning novel adjectives

People learn new words in narrative contexts, but little is known about how the emotional valence of the narrative influences word learning. In a pre-registered experiment, seventy-six English-speaking adults read 30 novel adjectives embedded in 60 short narratives (20 positive, 20 negative, and 20...

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Main Authors: Dong, Y, Mak, MH, Hepach, R, Nation, K
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2024