Transfer from mini-game practice to spoken production is smaller than transfer to written tasks¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r2 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Practice transferred to written productive tasks and, to a smaller extent, to spoken productive tasks. → Cornillie 2015

Evidence¶

Cornillie 2015¶

Cornillie, F., & Desmet, P. (2015). Design and empirical evaluation of controlled L2 practice through mini-games—moving beyond drill-and-kill?. Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2015.000325

q2 · i? · causal · r2

The article's summary of its experimental findings: transfer occurred to near-transfer judgment tasks and complex written tasks, and to a smaller extent to spoken productive tasks measured by the OEIT. No effect size is printed for the spoken outcome.

"Results show that intensive receptive practice helped learners to develop knowledge that was accurate and quickly retrievable on tests of near transfer, and that practice also transferred to more complex written productive tasks, as well as—to a smaller extent—to spoken productive tasks."

Discussion¶

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