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Review Article: Instructed Second Language Vocabulary Learning
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Schmitt, Norbert – Language Teaching Research, 2008
This article overviews current research on second language vocabulary learning. It concludes that a large vocabulary is necessary to function in English: 8000-9000 word families for reading, and perhaps as many as 5000-7000 families for oral discourse. In addition, a number of word knowledge aspects need to be learned about each lexical item.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intentional Learning, Incidental Learning