On the Effects of Spaced Versus Massed Practice on Deliberate Learning of English Idioms across L2 Proficiency Levels

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• C23 Spaced L2 practice sets a limit on it

  Full text (2026-11-10): classroom quasi-experiment, 199 Iranian EFL young adults, opaque idioms, same 100 minutes spaced or massed: spaced beat massed about 100 days later for mid- and high-proficiency learners but not for low-proficiency learners (cued-form 67.4 vs 71.5 %, ns). Held as open question 26.