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Peer reviewedHorst, Marlise; Meara, Paul – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1999
Presents a case study that tests a mathematical model for its ability to predict second language vocabulary gains achieved through reading. To overcome the problem of small word gains noted in earlier studies of incidental acquisition, an adult learner of Dutch read a lengthy text and was tested on hundreds of words. The participant's gains were…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adult Students, Case Studies, Dutch
