Incidental vocabulary acquisition: The effects of task type, word occurrence and their combination

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 391-411

  Laufer, Batia ^a   Rozovski Roitblat, Bella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

foreign language; incidental vocabulary; instructed learning; long term retention; number of word occurrences; task and word encounters; task type; vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952169093     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168811412019     Document Type: Article

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