Code
01GD3213
Duration
01 January 2013 → 31 October 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Animal experimental and comparative psychology
- Applied psychology
- Biological and physiological psychology
- General psychology
- Human experimental psychology
- Other psychology and cognitive sciences
- Education curriculum
- Education systems
- General pedagogical and educational sciences
- Instructional sciences
- Specialist studies in education
- Other pedagogical and educational sciences
Keywords
instructional interventions
language comprehension
learning
bilingualism
memory
advance organizers
language production
Project description
A majority of the word population speaks more than one language but many questions remain about the processing of a second language and the relationship between language and memory. For instance, what exactly makes it more difficult to understand text or speech in a second language? A multidisciplinary team of psycholinguists and education scientist investigate such issues using experimental methods.