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Publication details [#28747]

Lee, Yon Ok, Stephen D. Krashen and Barry C. Gribbons. 1996. The effect of reading on the acquisition of English relative clauses. ITL 113 - 114 : 263–273.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

literacy | reading | relative clause | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English, American | Korean

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper explores the effect of pleasure reading on the mastering of restrictive relative clauses in second language acquisition. Examples are drawn from tests that involved 49 international native Korean speaking English language students at the university of Southern California.