The relationship of working memory capacity and gender to vocabulary learning
Journal Title: Journal of Science and today’s world - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 5
Abstract
This study investigated the relationship of working memory capacity and gender to vocabulary learning .The study was conducted with 92 male and female first –year university students at Buin Zahra Islamic Azad University. The participants passed a five-week reading and vocabulary course. They received two kinds of tests, a vocabulary and a WMC. To answer the questions of the present study certain statistical technique was administered. To determine the degree of relationship, data was gathered for every single subject. A working memory test was given to the subjects to determine their working memory capacity. A vocabulary test was given to the subjects to measure their vocabulary knowledge. The findings of the present research made clear that, there is no meaningful relationship between WMC‟s of male and female students to vocabulary learning. Although the greatest relationship was between vocabulary learning and backward repetition in WMC; the results also showed that gender cannot be a major factor in vocabulary learning; however there are some differences in gender in using their right and left hemispheres in learning vocabulary.
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Hossein Aghaalikhani , Ebrahim Ahmadi
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