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This study investigates effective vocabulary learning strategies for Finnish as a foreign language. Using physiological data (electrodermal activity) and self-reports, the research examines how different word list learning strategies (Stratton, 2022; Hoshino, 2010) affect learners' engagement, self-efficacy, and cognitive load. 100 international university students will learn Finnish vocabulary categorised by difficulty and lexical similarity. The study hypothesises that alternating easy and difficult words boosts self-efficacy and balances cognitive load, while grouping lexically similar words enhances encoding. The expected outcome is that a mixed presentation of vocabulary, combining easy/difficult and lexically similar words, will promote self-efficacy, encoding, and recall, informing the design of more effective foreign language vocabulary instruction.
| Presenting author | Jobert Ngwenya |
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