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Three-session feedback-based lexical decision training with pre-post reading-speed diagnostics

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Description

The training pattern comprises three daily sessions of a lexical decision task — 1600 five-letter stimuli per week, including 800 SUBTLEX-DE words, 400 pseudowords, and 400 consonant strings — with immediate feedback (green/red squares after each response), preceded and followed by a standardized SLS reading speed assessment. Only the pre-test and first session data are used for outcome prediction. This task structure trains lexical categorization while monitoring general reading speed change at the sentence level.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Stimuli drawn randomly from a lexicon to represent natural variation in word characteristics, increasing feature generalizability.
  • A standardized sentence-level reading speed test (adult SLS) for pre-post diagnostics.
  • In control comparisons, at least 14 days between the two randomized training weeks.

Constraints

  • The post-test placement differed across experiments (day 3 in Experiment 1, day 4 in Experiments 2 and 3), which the authors handled with a design-change variable in the predictive model.

Target Learners

  • adult non-native German language learners

Learning Goals

  • lexical categorization skill
  • reading speed

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Benjamin Gagl & Klara Gregorová. (2024). Investigating lexical categorization in reading based on joint diagnostic and training approaches for language learners. npj Science of Learning 9:29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-024-00237-7
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title Three-session feedback-based lexical decision training with pre-post reading-speed diagnostics
description The training pattern comprises three daily sessions of a lexical decision task — 1600 five-letter stimuli per week, including 800 SUBTLEX-DE words, 400 pseudowords, and 400 consonant strings — with immediate feedback...
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