Effects of opportunities for word retrieval during second language vocabulary learning

Language Learning

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-56

  Barcroft, Joe ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Campus Box 1077 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Generation effect; Second language; Vocabulary learning; Word retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846567992     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2007.00398.x     Document Type: Article

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