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Make vocabulary retrievable, durable and usable
Build advanced vocabulary as retrievable form-meaning-use knowledge: deliberate recall, adaptive spacing, productive tests, collocations and formulaic sequences, plus selective rescue of useful language from reading and viewing.
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1 heuristic · 4 protocols
5 elements
Protocol
Learn the usable package, not only the translation
Knowing what a word means is only one part of knowing what to do with it.
Read the idea ProtocolUse spacing as a control loop, not a sacred calendar
The interval should react to memory, not worship a sequence of numbers.
Read the idea HeuristicPromote mature vocabulary into maintenance
A mature word should earn distance.
Read the idea ProtocolCollect chunks around real language jobs
Sometimes the useful unit is bigger than a word.
Read the idea ProtocolRescue high-value language from input into deliberate practice
Exposure discovers candidates; deliberate retrieval promotes the few that matter.
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