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Boers, Frank – Language Teaching, 2022
This article offers a critical review of research on the use of glossing and its contribution to second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition. Discussion topics include the complexity of estimating the effectiveness of glossing relative to reading non-glossed texts, the quest for optimal implementations of glossing, issues of ecological validity,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Reading Comprehension
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Gharibi, Khadijeh; Boers, Frank – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
This study investigates whether young heritage speakers, either simultaneous or sequential bilinguals, have limited vocabulary knowledge in their family language compared to matched monolingual counterparts and, if so, what factors help to account for this difference. These factors include age, age at emigration, length of emigration, frequency of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Monolingualism, Bilingualism