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Erlam, Rosemary; Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2019
Erlam & Ellis (2018) published, in "Canadian Modern Language Review", an experimental study that investigated the effect of input-based tasks on the acquisition of vocabulary and markers of plurality by adolescent near-beginner learners of L2 (second language) French. The present paper reports an approximate replication of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
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Webb, Stuart – Language Teaching, 2016
There has been a great deal of research on first language (L1) and second language (L2) learning through meaning-focused input since Nagy, Herman & Anderson's (1985) seminal study of incidental vocabulary learning through reading. Two strands of research within this area are incidental vocabulary learning through listening and guessing from…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Incidental Learning
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Laufer, Batia – Language Teaching, 2009
Interest in L2 vocabulary learning and teaching started long before the nineteen-eighties (for references to earlier studies, see Rob Waring's database http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/vocab/vocrefs/vocref.html) but it declined with the advent of generative linguistics to the point of discrimination and neglect (Meara 1980). In 1986, I argued…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Teaching Methods