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Modality-varied practice design: equal comprehension and production practice with rule-to-modality assignment varied between groups

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 2 studies (1 causal, 1 review), q2–q3 · 0 of 2 report an effect size

Description

This design pattern holds total practice constant while varying which rules are practiced in which modality. All subjects were taught the same rules and received the same amount of comprehension and production practice, but "which ruleswere practiced in comprehension and which in production varied between groups." Comprehension practice consisted of choosing between pictures to match a sentence; production practice consisted of typing the correct sentence corresponding to a picture. This allows skill-specificity of practice to be assessed.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A set of distinct rules that can be assigned differentially to comprehension and production practice
  • Learners at criterion on metalinguistic tests before practice begins

Constraints

  • As implemented, the pattern was used with an artificial language and computer-controlled practice over 8 weeks

Target Learners

  • adult second language learners

Learning Goals

  • developing comprehension and production skill for specific morphosyntactic rules

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Robert M. DeKeyser. (1997). Beyond Explicit Rule Learning: Automatizing Second Language Morphosyntax. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 19, Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263197002040
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type design
id modality-varied-rule-practice-design
title Modality-varied practice design: equal comprehension and production practice with rule-to-modality assignment varied between groups
description This design pattern holds total practice constant while varying which rules are practiced in which modality.
status review
generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-15
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sources 1 — robert-m-dekeyser-1997

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