Vocabulary learning in an automated graded reading program

Language Learning and Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 64-82

  Huang, Hung Tzu ^a   Liou, Hsien Chin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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