The impact of structure on word meaning and fill-in-the-blank tests procedures on short-term and long-term retention of vocabulary items

摘要: The purpose of research described in the current study to investigate impact structure knowing on two types test, i.e. word-meaning test and fill-in-the-blank their correlation procedures both short-term long-term retention vocabulary items. importance present study, condition that learners are not allowed use guess strategy or randomly answer tests they should give reason semantically for answer, otherwise even is correct, scored. population subject recruitment was all undergraduate students from second semester at large university Iran (both male female) English as a compulsory paper. In Iran, taught foreign language.