Are Academic English Words Learned Incidentally? A Canadian Case Study

This study at a Canadian university grew out of the need to know whether students acquired academic vocabulary incidentally through text exposure (extensive reading) in class. The ability to explicitly teach all the words on the academic word list is an unreasonable expectation for a one-semester co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hilda Freimuth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BC TEAL 2020-05-01
Series:BC TEAL Journal
Subjects:
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Online Access:https://ojs-o.library.ubc.ca/index.php/BCTJ/article/view/344