Contrasting shows no benefit on translation-recognition posttests in the productive direction¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? In Experiment 1, the recognition posttest showed no interaction effect with sorting, so contrasting did not affect recognition accuracy. → Baxter 2022

Evidence¶

Baxter 2022¶

Baxter, P.A.; Bekkering, H.; Dijkstra, A.F.J.; Droop, W.; Hurk, M.M. van den; Léoné, F.T.M. (2022). Contrasting orthographically similar words facilitates adult second language vocabulary learning. Learning and Instruction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101582

q3 · i? · causal · r2

Experiment 1 recognition posttest mixed-effects regression found main effects of time and similarity but "no interaction effect with sorting"; recognition was above chance immediately (Mprop_cor = 0.84) and a week later (0.73).

"Regarding the variables of interest for our hypotheses, there was no interaction effect with sorting."

Discussion¶

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