Insights into the spaced word practice strategy and its role in fighting lexical attrition and enhancing retention

Abstract EN

The problem of retention and attrition of foreign language vocabulary is an important issue of debate.

as a fundamental objective, language teachers struggle to present the most needed information to their students and foreign language learners strive to retain this information.

one of the serious problems in teaching and learning a foreign language is the inability of language learners to retain new learned words in the long term memory and retrieve them at will.

the main pursuit of the present article is to highlight the benefits of spacing learning as opposed to cramming learning.

it is an attempt to voice out my concern regarding the need to help foreign language learners enrich their lexical competence by using the spaced word practice strategy that is known to help them solve the problem of memory through enhancing long-term learning and fighting short-term one.