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Nguyen Thien An Bach; Samuel Barclay – Language Learning Journal, 2025
Choosing which words to teach is a key consideration for language teachers and materials writers. Some studies have shown that teaching words in semantically related clusters can make learning more difficult. However, others argue it is the physical similarity of the referents of words that causes confusion. Importantly, studies have employed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Proximity, Second Language Instruction