TY - JOUR ID - 126775 TI - Multisensory Teaching and Beta and SMR Oscillatory Activities in Foreign Language Vocabulary Retention: A Neurolinguistic Study JO - Iranian Journal of Learning and Memory JA - IEPA LA - en SN - 2645-5447 AU - Farrokh Alaee, Farnaz AU - Soleimani, Hassan AU - Haghir, Hossein AU - Aghayusefi, Alireza AU - Jafarigohar, Manoochehr AD - Ph.D., Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payame-Noor University, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran, Iran AD - Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell biology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Payame-Noor University, Tehran, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and FLs, Payame-Noor University,Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 3 IS - 11 SP - 7 EP - 25 KW - Beta wave KW - Beta1 wave KW - foreign language vocabulary retention KW - Multisensory teaching KW - QEEG DO - 10.22034/iepa.2021.251487.1214 N2 - Retention and learning are neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic processes. The brain electrical response to the cognitive processes that happen in the cortices is inescapable. During neuronal activities, created waves can be recorded and displayed by quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) in a non-invasive form. Beta waves are created by thinking, learning, computations, reasoning, attention, and problem-solving activities. This study's primary goal is to objectively investigate the variables impacts of multisensory and non-multisensory methods of instruction on vocabulary retention concerning beta and beta1 waves frequency changes. To meet the purpose, some pre-school novice male and female foreign language learners (age: 5-6 years) participated in this study voluntarily and were assigned into two experimental groups: The Multisensory (three girls and four boys) and Non-multisensory (one girl and six boys) teaching groups. The analyses of the collected data on pre- and post-brain QEEG records of beta and beta1/SMR waves' variations indicated no significant difference between the two groups in the brain oscillatory changes. However, the case study analyses specified the supremacy of beta1 frequency ranges in the Multisensory post-records. The comparative findings of pre- and post-Expressive One Word-Picture-Matching Test (EWPMT) showed that the Multisensory group outperformed the Non-multisensory one; besides, a significant positive relationship was found between beta wave frequency changes on Fp1 and mean score of EWPM post-test in the Multisensory group. The study concluded that the multisensory approach could be a promising method to improve retention at the pre-school level.    UR - https://journal.iepa.ir/article_126775.html L1 - https://journal.iepa.ir/article_126775_248279fe521866be39ff4e88b34f8b26.pdf ER -