Some Empirical Evidence for the Involvement Load Hypothesis in Vocabulary Acquisition

Language Learning

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 539-558

  Hulstijn, Jan H ^b   Laufer, Batia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0035647550     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0023-8333.00164     Document Type: Article

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