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Design, installation and operation of the worldâs first high temperature superconducting power cable in a utility power network
Electrical cardioversion of atrial fibrillation and the risk of brady-arrhythmic events:Rasmussen et al: Electrical cardioversion and bradycardia
Attaching Meaning to Chinese Characters : A retrieval practice study of learners with no knowledge of Chinese
En ökad efterfrÄgan pÄ talare av mandarin kinesiska (hÀdanefterkinesiska) i vÀst har lett till ett ökat behov av högkvalitetsundervisning i kinesiska. I den hÀr undersökningen studerade 24 svenska modersmÄlstalare utan tidigare kinesisk sprÄkerfarenhet 60 svenska ord i kombination med deras kinesiska motsvarighet. HÀlften av paren lÀrdes genom upprepade studier (dÀr ordparen presenteras samtidigt) och hÀlften av paren genom aktiv minneshÀmtning (dÀr ordparen presenteras separat). Varaktigheten av upprepade studieroch aktiva minneshÀmtningen likstÀlldes. Alla de kinesiska tecknen presenterades tillsammans med en fonologisk representation. Efter att ha lÀrtde 60 ordparen, utfördesett flervalstest för att bedöma lÀranderesultatet. För att testa för den fonologiska representationens betydelse vid inlÀrning sÄ presenterades hÀlften av ordparen frÄn varje betingelse utan deras fonologiska representation under testningen. Logistikblandade modellerfann att prestationvar signifikant bÀttre förupprepade studier jÀmfört med aktiv minneshÀmtningoch att tillgÄng till en fonologisk representation under testninginte gav signifikant bÀttre testprestanda.An increased demand for speakers of Mandarin Chinese (henceforth Chinese) in the West has lead to an increased need for high quality teaching of Chinese. In the present study, 24 native Swedish speakers with no prior Chinese language experience studied 60 Swedish words paired with their Chinese equivalents. Half of the pairs were learned by repeated studying (with the word pairs presented simultaneously) and half of the pairs by active retrieval (with the word pairs presented separately). The durations of repeated study and active memory retrieval were equated. All the Chinese characters were presented along with a phonological representation. After learning the 60 word pairs, a multiple-choice test was conducted to assess learning outcome. To test for for the importance of the phonological representation, half of the word pairs learnt in each condition had the representation removed during testing. Logistic mixed models found that performance was significantly better for repeated studying compared to active memory retrieval and that having access to a phonological representation during testing did not yield significantly better test performance. Keywords: Mandarin Chinese, second language learning, the testing effec
Attaching Meaning to Chinese Characters : A retrieval practice study of learners with no knowledge of Chinese
En ökad efterfrÄgan pÄ talare av mandarin kinesiska (hÀdanefterkinesiska) i vÀst har lett till ett ökat behov av högkvalitetsundervisning i kinesiska. I den hÀr undersökningen studerade 24 svenska modersmÄlstalare utan tidigare kinesisk sprÄkerfarenhet 60 svenska ord i kombination med deras kinesiska motsvarighet. HÀlften av paren lÀrdes genom upprepade studier (dÀr ordparen presenteras samtidigt) och hÀlften av paren genom aktiv minneshÀmtning (dÀr ordparen presenteras separat). Varaktigheten av upprepade studieroch aktiva minneshÀmtningen likstÀlldes. Alla de kinesiska tecknen presenterades tillsammans med en fonologisk representation. Efter att ha lÀrtde 60 ordparen, utfördesett flervalstest för att bedöma lÀranderesultatet. För att testa för den fonologiska representationens betydelse vid inlÀrning sÄ presenterades hÀlften av ordparen frÄn varje betingelse utan deras fonologiska representation under testningen. Logistikblandade modellerfann att prestationvar signifikant bÀttre förupprepade studier jÀmfört med aktiv minneshÀmtningoch att tillgÄng till en fonologisk representation under testninginte gav signifikant bÀttre testprestanda.An increased demand for speakers of Mandarin Chinese (henceforth Chinese) in the West has lead to an increased need for high quality teaching of Chinese. In the present study, 24 native Swedish speakers with no prior Chinese language experience studied 60 Swedish words paired with their Chinese equivalents. Half of the pairs were learned by repeated studying (with the word pairs presented simultaneously) and half of the pairs by active retrieval (with the word pairs presented separately). The durations of repeated study and active memory retrieval were equated. All the Chinese characters were presented along with a phonological representation. After learning the 60 word pairs, a multiple-choice test was conducted to assess learning outcome. To test for for the importance of the phonological representation, half of the word pairs learnt in each condition had the representation removed during testing. Logistic mixed models found that performance was significantly better for repeated studying compared to active memory retrieval and that having access to a phonological representation during testing did not yield significantly better test performance. Keywords: Mandarin Chinese, second language learning, the testing effec