Why vocabulary instruction needs to be long-term and comprehensive

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary: Bringing Research to Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 27-44

  Nagy, William ^a  

^a SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612922     Document Type: Chapter

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