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Peer reviewedHorst, Marlise; Cobb, Tom; Meara, Paul – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1998
This replication study demonstrated that Jordanian college students studying English recognized the meanings of new words and built associations between them after comprehension-focused extensive reading. Controlled book-length reading generated more incidental word learning and a higher pickup rate than shorter tasks. Word frequency did not make…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
