Professor Julián Barroso-Merino (World Languages and Cultures Department) presented "Cognitive, metacognitive strategies and processing fluency in acquisition of Spanish vocabulary" during the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 2023 Conference in Salamanca, Spain, on June 26-29.
This case analysis demonstrates that cognitive and memorization strategies, metacognitive planning strategies, and judgments of encoding processing fluency are mediating variables for Spanish vocabulary acquisition in online first-year college students. The case study uses three theoretical models: Reber and Greifeneder's cognitive fluency, Gardner and Lambert's socio-educational model, and Rebecca Oxford's learning strategies.
