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Is Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Feasible to EFL Learning?
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Luo, Jian-ping – English Language Teaching, 2013
For learning English as a foreign language, the efficiency of the approach of incidental vocabulary acquisition depends on the word frequency and text coverage. However, the statistics of English corpus reveals that English is a language that has a large vocabulary size but a low word frequency as well as text coverage, which is obviously not in…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)