Exploring the relation between language experience, verbal working memory and visual and verbal long-term memory
dc.contributor.author | Motlhabane, Otsile | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-01T12:50:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-01T12:50:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.description | Degree: MA in Psychology by Coursework and Research Report, 2016 | en_ZA |
dc.description.abstract | A 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.librarian | MT2017 | en_ZA |
dc.format.extent | Online resource (vii, 81 leaves) | |
dc.identifier.citation | Motlhabane, 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/21815 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.subject.lcsh | Memory (Psychological aspects) | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Second language acquisition--Research | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Multilingualism--Psychological aspects | |
dc.title | Exploring the relation between language experience, verbal working memory and visual and verbal long-term memory | en_ZA |
dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |
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