A corpus driven study of the potential for vocabulary learning through watching movies

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 497-519

  Webb, Stuart ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Incidental vocabulary learning; Movies; Repetition; Vocabulary size; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149433641     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.15.4.03web     Document Type: Review

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