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Download full textStockwell, Glenn – JALT CALL Journal, 2013
While learners can acquire vocabulary through extensive reading (Pigada & Schmitt, 2006), research suggests that acquisition can be more effective when supplemented with targeted vocabulary activities (e.g., Paribakht & Wesche, 1997). Problems arise, however, in determining what vocabulary learners have acquired, and what items should be…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Leach, Mozelle P. – 1986
A study compared the results of a 1986 survey on the opinions of preservice teachers with those of a survey conducted in 1984 by William Bennett (at that time chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities). Bennett's survey asked respondents to list 30 works that students should be expected to read before high school graduation.…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Core Curriculum, English Curriculum, English Literature
