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Publication details [#2510]

Darian, Steven. 1980. Focal words and the recovery of sentence meaning. ITL 47 : 15–27.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehension, L2-acquisition of

Journal WWW

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Annotation

It is argued that the foreign language learner, when listening and reading, concentrates on focal words from which he then 'recovers' the meaning communicated.