The present study has been conducted with two main questions: Does using mobile phones by intermediate EFL learners have a significant effect on the learners' vocabulary retention? And is there a significant difference between male and female intermediate EFL learners in vocabulary retention while using mobile phones? This study was a true experimental research and to do the research 111 studen...

Expanding retrieval practice (T. K. Landauer & R. A. Bjork, 1978) is regarded as a superior technique for promoting long-term retention relative to equally spaced retrieval practice. In Experiments 1 and 2, the authors found that expanding retrieval practice of vocabulary word pairs produced short-term benefits 10 min after learning, conceptually replicating Landauer and Bjork's results. Howeve...

Previous studies investigating posttest feedback have generally conceptualized feedback as a method for correcting erroneous responses, giving virtually no consideration to how feedback might promote learning of correct responses. Here, the authors show that when correct responses are made with low confidence, feedback serves to correct this initial metacognitive error, enhancing retention of l...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of contextual interference on balance of mentally retarded people. for this purpose, 40 educable and mentally retarded boys in qazvin city (mean age 24.45 ± 3.120) were randomly divided into two groups: blocked and random practice. after the pretest, given their practice arrangement, subjects in each group performed their workout for 4 ...

the purpose of the present study was to compare the effects of two methods of self-modeling and video demonstration of an expert on the acquisition and retention of volleyball serve skill. participants were 30 students (aged between 12 and 14) who were assigned into two homogeneous groups after the pretest. the self-modeling group (n = 15) watched their performances in the criterion task via a ...

this study compared the effects of neurofeedback and physical practices on performance and retention of dart throwing skill. 24 subjects were selected by convenience sampling method from female physical education students of urmia university who were all right-handed with no history of neurofeedback training and dart throwing. they were divided to three groups: physical practice, neurofeedback ...

the purpose of this investigation was to study the effect of variability of practice and age on retention and transfer of the over-arm throwing accuracy in children. khalajy and shafizadeh’s (1383) test of over-arm throwing accuracy was adjusted and used in this study. 48 right-handed female children (16 children in each age group of 4, 5 and 6 years old) were selected voluntarily. each age gro...