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Peer reviewedStahl, Steven A. – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1988
Reviews "The Nature of Vocabulary Acquisition" by Margaret G. McKeown and Mary E. Curtis. Focuses on three questions involving vocabulary acquisition: (1) What does it mean to know the meaning of a word?; (2) How does knowledge about word meanings develop?; and (3) What is the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and comprehension? (MM)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Semantics
