Exploring the relation between language experience, verbal working memory and visual and verbal long-term memory

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dc.contributor.authorMotlhabane, Otsile
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-01T12:50:58Z
dc.date.available2017-02-01T12:50:58Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionDegree: MA in Psychology by Coursework and Research Report, 2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractA comprehensive study has demonstrated that language experience provides cognitive benefits above the attainment of a second language (Bialystok, Craik, Green & Gollan, 2009) and thus it is purported that being a bi/multilingual stimulates memory and other executive functions (Jessner, 1999).The relation between language experience and verbal working memory and visual and verbal long-term memory was explored by assessing 30 healthy, young multilingual adults. The instruments that were used for this study are as follows: The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q) which rated self-reported language experience/s, the Letter-Number Sequencing subtest from the WAIS-IV which assessed verbal working memory, the Visual Reproduction (VR) subtest from the WMS-IV which evaluated visual long-term memory and the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) which measured verbal memory and learning. The results of the ANOVA statistics found that there was a correlation between language experience and verbal long-term memory (which was measured by utilising the RAVLT), but no links between language experience and verbal working memory and visual long-term memory were found. The results suggest that the language experience of young, multilingual adult South Africans is not related with verbal working memory and visual long-term memory.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMT2017en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (vii, 81 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationMotlhabane, Otsile (2016) Exploring the relation between language experience, verbal working memory and visual and verbal long-term memory, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21815>
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/21815
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshMemory (Psychological aspects)
dc.subject.lcshSecond language acquisition--Research
dc.subject.lcshMultilingualism--Psychological aspects
dc.titleExploring the relation between language experience, verbal working memory and visual and verbal long-term memoryen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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