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Attitudes toward Vocabulary Acquisition among College Freshmen: Are Students Aware of the Power of Reading?
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White, Howard; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1987
Finds that college freshmen's opinions on vocabulary acquisition agree with the results of recent research, which states that free reading is the most efficient and effective means of acquiring vocabulary in a first language. Results contrast with a study of university foreign language students, most of whom did not value reading as a means of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Higher Education, Independent Reading, Language Arts