Adding the keyword mnemonic to retrieval practice: A potent combination for foreign language vocabulary learning?
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-019-00936-2