Examining incidental word learning during reading in children: The role of context

From mid-childhood onwards, children learn hundreds of new words every year incidentally through reading. Yet little is known about this process, and the circumstances in which vocabulary acquisition is maximised. We examined whether encountering novel words in semantically diverse rather than seman...

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Main Authors: Joseph, H, Nation, K
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2017