The Moderating Role of Learning Rounds: Effects on Retrieval Practice and Context Dependence in Digital Flashcard Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning.

ABSTRACT: Digital flashcards are widely used in foreign language vocabulary learning. Research attributes their effectiveness to retrieval practice, where learners actively recall target information, thereby enhancing learning performance. The superiority of retrieval practice over non-retrieval methods such as restudying is referred to as the retrieval practice effect (RPE). Despite extensive research on the RPE, two key questions remain underexplored: how the number of learning rounds modulates the RPE in digital flashcard learning and whether the benefits of retrieval practice are consistently observed across different test modalities, a factor related to the context-dependence of memory. To address these questions, 108 Chinese-English bilinguals learned 60 Swahili-Chinese word pairs using two st

SUBMITTER: Huang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12649105 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature