Modeling the role of second language proficiency and topic familiarity in second language incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading

Language Learning

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-284

  Pulido, Diana ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0038345081     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9922.00217     Document Type: Review

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