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Word Knowledge Retention

Word Knowledge Retention is a linguistic construct that refers to the durable internalization and sustained ability to access and accurately use target vocabulary learned in context over time, distinguishing it from immediate acquisition by emphasizing long-term maintenance and retrieval in subsequent comprehension or production tasks.

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Short-term retention of individual verbal items.

Lloyd Peterson, Margaret Jean Peterson · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1959 · 2.9K citations

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The Effects of Repetition on Vocabulary Knowledge

Stuart Webb · Applied Linguistics · 2007 · 803 citations

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Is nonword repetition a test of phonological memory or long-term knowledge? It all depends on the nonwords

Susan E. Gathercole · Memory & Cognition · 1995 · 518 citations

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What Is Hard to Learn Is Easy to Forget: The Roles of Word Concreteness, Cognate Status, and Word Frequency in Foreign‐Language Vocabulary Learning and Forgetting

Annette M.B. de Groot, Rineke Keijzer · Language Learning · 2000 · 406 citations

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The Effect of Type of Written Exercise on L2 Vocabulary Retention

Keith S. Folse · TESOL Quarterly · 2006 · 347 citations · Full text

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Authors

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    Batia Laufer

    University of Haifa, Israel

    5 publications · 919 citations

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    Mark Feng Teng

    Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR China

    4 publications · 137 citations

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  3. AN
    Azadeh Nemati

    Islamic Azad University, Jahrom Branch, Iran

    4 publications · 127 citations

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  4. MK
    Matthew K. Burns

    University of Minnesota, United States

    4 publications · 177 citations

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    Kevyn Collins‐Thompson

    Microsoft (United States), United States

    3 publications · 113 citations

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Institutions

190

  1. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    1.5K citations

  2. Swansea University

    Swansea, United Kingdom

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    432 citations

  3. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    708 citations

  4. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    458 citations

  5. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    176 citations

  6. University of Wales

    Cardiff, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    263 citations

  7. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    745 citations

  8. Lancaster University

    Lancaster, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    244 citations

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  1. Language Teaching Research

    LTR · 6 publications · 440 citations

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  2. Computer Assisted Language Learning

    5 publications · 241 citations

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  3. Language Learning

    5 publications · 713 citations

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  4. Memory & Cognition

    4 publications · 613 citations

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  5. Journal of Experimental Psychology General

    4 publications · 303 citations

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