Using both a corpus and dictionary can help in recalling definitions and collocations of new vocabulary.
Rod Ellis offers a modular curriculum that does not throw the structural (grammar) baby out of the semantic bathwater.
Teacher trainees implementing core practices.
Input and output may play different but equally important roles says meta-analysis
Buyer beware: SLA and the spacing effect
Pitfalls when SLA borrows the idea of spacing effect from cognitive science
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Spaced repetition software and TOEIC test proficiency
Spaced repetition software to learn a TOEIC wordlist improves TOEIC test scores.
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Corpus use with BNCweb results in gains in writing fluency and accuracy but not complexity.