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As learners engage in elaboration of any meaningful element, they invest cognitive effort. Originally referred to (metaphorically) as deep processing, elaboration results in better retention than processing which is superficial, or ‘shallow’ (Cermak and Craik, 1979; for a classic work on memory, see Baddeley, 1997 [1990]). Although nowadays the adjectives rich and elaborative are increasingly favoured over the one-dimensional deep, the basic idea remains the same.
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Boers, F., Lindstromberg, S. (2009). Semantic Elaboration. In: Optimizing a Lexical Approach to Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245006_5
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