Visible or invisible links: Does the highlighting of hyperlinks affect incidental vocabulary learning, text comprehension, and the reading process?

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 123-146

  De Ridder, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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