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Article: Bilingual generation effect: variations in participant bilingual type and list type.
- Article from:
- The Journal of General Psychology
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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The generation effect refers to the finding that target words that are learner-generated according to a rule (e.g., antonyms, associates) are recalled better than targets that are provided by an experimenter (Slamecka & Graf, 1978). Although it has been well documented with unilingual materials when within-list designs were used, a generation advantage was not found by Slamecka and Katsaiti (1987, Experiment 1) when bilinguals were asked to generate cross-language translations (rather than reading them in a mixed list). More recently, O'Neill, Roy, and Tremblay (1993, Experiment 1) reported a strong generation effect for bilingual translation when using a within-list design ...