L2 vocabulary acquisition in children: Effects of learning method and cognate status

Language Learning

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 623-646

  Tonzar, Claudio ^a   Lotto, Lorella ^b   Job, Remo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognate status; Concurrent acquisition of two foreign languages; Immediate and delayed learning; L2 vocabulary learning; Second language learning; Teaching learning methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 68849088167     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2009.00519.x     Document Type: Article

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