Learning Words from Context and Dictionaries: An Experimental Comparison.

Fischer, Ute

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ERIC Number: EJ505233

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Publication Date: 1994

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Learning Words from Context and Dictionaries: An Experimental Comparison.

Fischer, Ute

Applied Psycholinguistics, v15 n4 p551-74 Dec 1994

Investigated the independent and interactive effects of contextual and definitional information on vocabulary learning. German students of English received either a text with unfamiliar English words or their monolingual English dictionary entries. A third group received both. Information about word context is crucial to understanding meaning. (44 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Context Clues, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Definitions, English (Second Language), Graphs, High School Students, Learning Strategies, Research Methodology, Second Language Learning, Tables (Data), Teaching Methods, Translation, Vocabulary Development, Word Lists, Word Recognition

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Language: English

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