Dear Foreign Language Instructors and Learners,
I am researching spaced repetition theory for foreign language acquisition. Spaced repetition theory is the idea that learning material and studying it at increased time intervals helps the learner retain that material long-term. Several flashcard-based language acquisition programs use this theory in practice.
Examples of intervals (in days) are:
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512
1, 5, 25, 120, 730
4, 30, 150, 600
I'm interested to know what you think the optimal intervals are based on your experience as a language instructor or learner.
Please take 1-2 minutes to fill out this 3 question survey and contribute to my research on intervals for learning foreign vocabulary. No emails or other contact information will be collected in the survey.
The survey can be found here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C2S6R8GThank you,
Vimala Palaniswamy
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Subject: Contribute to research on Spaced Repetition Intervals
Date: January 26, 2012 3:04:22 PM CST