Leitner System

Leitner System

The Leitner system is intriguing. The MTC employed a similar system in their TALL language learning software. When missionaries learned words, if they learned them correctly, they were placed in a system that retrieved the words in certain time intervals and brought them back at a set interval to be reviewed. Although the MTC thought that this would follow modern research and help acquisition, missionaries hated it. For this very reason, many missionaries chose not to use TALL at all, because they felt that they didn't have freedom to learn what they wanted to learn and that they were "wasting" time reviewing words when they wanted to learn other words for a closer task at hand. Although this way might have been more effective for the missionaries, they didn't understand it and didn't use it.