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Direct linkAdlof, Suzanne; Frishkoff, Gwen; Dandy, Jennifer; Perfetti, Charles – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Word learning can build the high-quality word representations that support skilled reading and language comprehension. According to the partial knowledge hypothesis, words that are partially known, also known as "frontier words" (Durso & Shore, 1991), may be good targets for instruction precisely because they are already familiar.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Adults, Children
