Vocabulary Learning During Reading: Benefits of Contextual Inferences Versus Retrieval Opportunities.

ABSTRACT: Retrieval practice of isolated words (e.g., with flashcards) enhances foreign vocabulary learning. However, vocabulary is often encountered in context. We investigated whether retrieval opportunities also enhance contextualized word learning. In two within-subjects experiments, participants encoded 24 foreign words and then read a story to further strengthen word knowledge. The story contained eight target words in a retrieval context, which required participants to recall word meaning from memory to understand the text (e.g., "She borrowed a knyga"), and eight target words in an inference context from which meaning could be inferred (e.g., "She read a knyga" [book]). After 1 to 2 days, a posttest measured word retention. Reading the words in either the retrieval or inference context incre

SUBMITTER: van den Broek GSE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285746 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature