The effects of receptive and productive learning of word pairs on vocabulary knowledge

RELC Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 360-376

  Webb, Stuart ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Decontextualized learning; Productive; Receptive; Vocabulary; Vocabulary knowledge; Word pairs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649280625     PISSN: 00336882     EISSN: 1745526X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0033688209343854     Document Type: Article

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