The Optimal Distribution of Practice for the Acquisition of L2 Morphology: A Conceptual Replication and Extension
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This study examined optimal learning schedules for second language (L2) acquisition of a morphological structure. Sixty participants studied the simple and complex morphological rules of a novel miniature language system so as to use them for oral production. They engaged in four training sessions in either shorter spaced (3.3‐day interval) or longer spaced (7‐day interval) learning conditions. From the beginning of the third training session, the 3.3‐day interval group started to provide more accurate target rules than the 7‐day interval group. This superior performance by the 3.3‐day interval group was maintained on both 7‐ and 28‐day delayed posttests with small to medium effect sizes. No significant difference was found between the two groups for utterance speed, nor did linguistic complexity exert an influence on the effectiveness of different distributions of learning conditions. Open Practices This article has been awarded an Open Materials badge. All materials are publicly accessible in the IRIS digital repository at http://www.iris-database.org . Learn more about the Open Practices badges from the Center for Open Science: https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki .
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Several L2 studies showed distributed practice effects on delayed posttests administered at least 1 week after treatment.
“Furthermore, several L2 studies showed the distributed practice effects on delayed posttests that are administered at least 1 week after the treatment (e.g., for pronunciation learning, Li & DeKeyser, 2019;for vocabulary learning, Nakata, 2015;Nakata & Suzuki, 2019;for grammar learning, Bird, 2010;Rogers, 2015;Suzuki, 2017).”
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MASSED TASK REPETITION IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD FOR FLUENCY DEVELOPMENT
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“…show the superiority of longer-spaced practice (Bird, 2010; Rogers, 2015), while other researchers claim that shorter-spaced practice may be as effective as longer-spaced practice (Kasprowicz et al., 2019) or even more effective than longer-spaced practice (Suzuki, 2017; Suzuki & DeKeyser, 2017a).”
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- Authors
- Suzuki, Y.
- Affiliations
- Kanagawa University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Suzuki, Yuichi
- ORCID
- Suzuki, Yuichi
- Venue
- Language Learning
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-03-23
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 512-545
- ISSN
- 0023-8333 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9922
- OpenAlex
- W2601999383
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 30.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language Learning (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15H06696)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- second language acquisition, morphological rules, spacing effect, practice distribution, oral expression, retention, linguistic complexity
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