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Retention of New Words: Quantity of Encounters, Quality of Task, and Degree of Knowledge
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Laufer, Batia; Rozovski-Roitblat, Bella – Language Teaching Research, 2015
We examined how learning new second language (L2) words was affected by three "task type" conditions (reading only, reading with a dictionary, reading and word focused exercises), three "number of encounters" conditions and their combinations. Three groups of L2 learners (n = 185) were exposed to 30 target words (one group in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Dictionaries