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Glossing and Vocabulary Learning
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Boers, Frank – Language Teaching, 2022
This article offers a critical review of research on the use of glossing and its contribution to second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition. Discussion topics include the complexity of estimating the effectiveness of glossing relative to reading non-glossed texts, the quest for optimal implementations of glossing, issues of ecological validity,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Reading Comprehension