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Dupuy, Beatrice; Krashen, Stephen D. – Applied Language Learning, 1993
Third semester college students of French viewed part of a film, read part, and then were given a surprise vocabulary test with colloquial words from the text. Their performance, compared to a control group, suggests that incidental vocabulary acquisition is possible in a foreign language situation. The test is appended. (Contains eight…
Descriptors: Context Clues, French, Hidden Curriculum, Higher Education