Flash cards (also referred to as word cards) are a set of cards where the second language
(L2) word is written on one side and its meaning, usually in the form of a first language (L1) …

This meta‐analysis investigates earlier studies of spaced practice in second language
learning. We retrieved 98 effect sizes from 48 experiments (N= 3,411). We compared the …

This paper investigates the effects of watching an entire season of a French series with the
streaming service Netflix in an out-of-classroom context. University Dutch-speaking low-to …

This article reports on a study exploring the differential effects of immediate and delayed
corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of the English past tense. One hundred and forty …

Providing a much-needed critical synthesis of research on teaching vocabulary and
grammar to students of a second or foreign language, this book puts the research into …

This introduction to the special issue provides an overview of the role of practice in a second
language (L2) from both pedagogical and theoretical perspectives. The following 5 areas of …

This coda article offers unified theoretical accounts of the major findings of the empirical
studies in this special issue of Optimizing Second Language Practice in the Classroom …

In an exploration of the effects of task‐repetition practice on fluency development, English‐
as‐a‐foreign language learners performed three oral narrative tasks involving six‐frame …

Studies examining decontextualized associative vocabulary learning have shown that long
spacing between encounters with an item facilitates learning more than short or no spacing …

Given the importance of collocational knowledge for second language learning, how
collocation learning can be facilitated is an important question. The present study examined …