記憶実験による英語の学力の分析

抄録

The main purpose of this study was to see the r elation of English achievement and capacity of using constraint of contexts on immediate memory. Artificial English sentences were used as materials, each of which contained 10 words and graded by the order of apprwdmation to English, and the subjects wrote them down immediately after presentation, when two ways of scoring were employed, namely letter score (L. 5.) and placement score (P. 5.).The subjects were 80 freshmen of high school arfor each of them the following data were obtained as reference materials.
Test experiments
1) rote learning test
2) words recalling test
3) bonanzagram test
Reference data
1) school records of English 2) IQ
To see the types of the ways of memorizing, contents of memory were devided into structural and non-structural.part and P. S. was regarded as the index of the former.
Then calculating the the correlation coefficient between non-structural part and L. S:, there was no correlation for the subjects as a whole, but stratifying them according to English achievement, upper 1/4 showed negative value of correlation and when materials were restricted to high orders of approximation, upper 1/2 showed negative correlation.
These results show that there is a difference in the capacity of using the constraint of contexts between an upper group and a lower group. But from the fact that the upper 1/4 showed high negative correletion, for low order materials, it is considered that especially excellent students can give a strained meaning to the material which has not a logical structure in itself. This fact shows one of the characteristics of learning foreign languages.