Does pictorial elucidation foster recollection of idioms?

By F. Boers, Ana María Piquer Píriz, H. Stengers, June Eyckmans. 2009

103 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. F. Boers
2. Manuela Macedonia
3. Katharina von Kriegstein
4. N. Schmitt
5. Sachi Yasuda
6. June Eyckmans
7. H. Stengers

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. F. Boers
2. Manuela Macedonia
3. Katharina von Kriegstein
4. N. Schmitt
5. Sachi Yasuda

Citations in the corpus

• Gestures Enhance Foreign Language Learning (2012, background): “…and efforts have been made in foreign language teaching practice to enrich vocabulary with multisensory input by using flash cards (Barcroft 2009; Boers et al. 2009; Tonzar et al. 2009), videos (Sydorenko 2010), songs (Keskin 2011), and implementing them on novel technical devices such as mobile…”
• Cognitive Linguistic approaches to teaching vocabulary: Assessment and integration (2011, background): “Again, the meaning of the idiom can be made more memorable via pictorial elucidation of its literal reading (Boers et al. 2009; Szczepaniak & Lew 2011) – provided it is congruent with the figurative meaning, of course.”