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Peer reviewedHuckin, Thomas; Coady, James – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999
Reviews recent research on incidental vocabulary acquisition in second language. Discusses key unresolved issues such as the actual mechanism of incidental acquisition, type and size of vocabulary needed for accurate guessing, degree of exposure to a word needed for successful acquisition, efficacy of different word-guessing strategies, value of…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Language Research, Learning Strategies, Reading Instruction
