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Direct linkChen, Chuntien; Truscott, John – Applied Linguistics, 2010
This study of incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading, involving 72 freshmen at two Asian universities, investigated (i) the effect of repeated encounters with target words on the development of seven aspects of word knowledge, and (ii) the effect of L1 lexicalization on the acquisition of meaning--does the absence of an L1 translation…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, College Freshmen, Translation
