From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Sep 17 06:23:54 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EGcfa-0000Sq-6Y for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:23:54 -0700 Received: from thor.idns5.com ([66.246.72.94]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1EGcfS-0000Si-1b for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:23:53 -0700 Received: from ppp-69-216-137-88.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net ([69.216.137.88]:4574 helo=[192.168.1.100]) by thor.idns5.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1EGcfA-0000TK-EE for lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:23:28 +0100 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:23:36 -0400 From: Bruce Webber To: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: podcast (pimsleur method) Message-ID: <6C7B155F7FA8BB493E0CC35A@[192.168.1.100]> In-Reply-To: <1126943116.6529.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <5ba3a3a5d3359a8e9d63b38e6b099ade@ghostgun.com> <1126943116.6529.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - thor.idns5.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - chain.digitalkingdom.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fastmail.us X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 2122 X-Approved-By: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-original-sender: brucewebber@fastmail.us Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@chain.digitalkingdom.org X-list: lojban-beginners --On Saturday, September 17, 2005 2:45 PM +0700 John Leuner wrote: > I read about the Pimsleur method a couple of weeks ago. The main point > of Pimsleur material is that is carefully constructed using "Graduated > Interval Recall". I searched the web for any papers or research about > this model of memory retention but I only found hundreds of sites > flogging Pimsleur language sets. > > Does anyone know more about this theory or have a link to some research? Try searching for "spaced repetitions", which I believe is the same thing. (I've never used the Pimsleur method, and I'm guessing here.) The idea behind spaced repetitions is that as long as the student remembers correctly, the interval between repetitions can increase. This allows high retention of the learned material, and more and more material to be learned. Piotr Wozniak incorporated this method into Supermemo. Check out the Supermemo site , and the selection of articles . -- Bruce Webber brucewebber@fastmail.us http://brucewebber.us