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Direct linkElgort, Irina; Beliaeva, Natalia; Boers, Frank – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Access to definitions facilitates the learning of word meanings when novel words are encountered in reading. However, the memorial costs and benefits of inferring word meanings from context, compared to seeing definitions of unfamiliar words before reading, are not yet well understood. We conducted two experiments with adult L1 (English) and L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Inferences, Recall (Psychology)
