The results of four experiments are reported, two with seventh-and eighth-grade students
and two with third-and fourth-grade students. The purpose of Experiment 1 was to compare
two student-generated vocabulary-learning strategies, sentence context and mnemonic
keyword, under two alternative learning formats, individual and small group. The purpose of
Experiment 2 was to compare experimenter-provided versions of the two strategies on
vocabulary-usage test items that would ostensibly be most hospitable to the context strategy …