Vocabulary Acquisition to Long-Term Memory through Word Association Strategy

Abstract

Word association test technique and memory storage issue has an intrinsic and central relationship from the last decade. Subsequent is the study of the relationship between the two and their effect upon vocabulary learning. The reviewed data consists of word association methodology in relation to mental lexicon and its applications. All these functions supports us for using word association tests upon language skills subjects, using some theoretical materials of chain theory, network theory, concept maps etc. The changed pattern of associations at different timings and the evaluation of the degree of storage of maximum number of lexical items in long term memory using WATs are shown.

Keywords: word association theory, lexical networks theory, chain theory, words association in mental lexicon.