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Analogical Transfer Of Problem Solutions Within And Between Languages In Spanish-English Bilinguals, Wendy Francis
Analogical Transfer Of Problem Solutions Within And Between Languages In Spanish-English Bilinguals, Wendy Francis
Wendy S. Francis
Previous cognitive research on transfer of learning in bilingual participants has used simple tasks such as word learning. In the present study, an analogical transfer paradigm was used to examine transfer of high-level conceptual information between languages. Experiment 1 examined analogical transfer from a single source story to a target problem in the same or in a different language with Spanish-English bilinguals. Experiment 2 exploited the competitive nature of retrieval in analogical transfer using a more sensitive design in which the target problem was preceded by two source analogs suggesting different solutions. Even with a total of 207 participants across …