Associative mnemonics for teaching false cognates between Spanish and Portuguese
- Manuel Fernando Rios Sanchez
Abstract
This study conducts an overview of false cognates between Spanish and Portuguese to propose the didactic strategy of associative mnemonics: associative images with associative sentences, this with the aim of reducing interference and improving the accuracy at the time of recalling false cognates. The study was designed for 30 Colombian students who learn Portuguese.The participants in the experimental group had access to the associative mnemonics, in contrast to the control group who had access just to the associative sentences, after the experiment, both groups performed a recall task to check accuracy. Results showed a rise of 25,8% of the experimental group compared to the control group. Linking individual translations between both languages showed a performance of 85%, but when the task was about a written description of pictures, the performance lowered to 54%. This study gives light to find diverse metacognitive techniques to differentiate lexicon in both languages.
Keywords
associative mnemonics, metacognitive strategies, Portuguese as a Foreign Language, recall, vocabulary learning, false cognates
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