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Publication details [#28791]

Li, Xinghua, Xiaokun Song, Carole Zimmer, Johan Vanparys and Peter Kelly. 1999. WUFUN: A new approach to more efficient and effective vocabulary learning. ITL 125 - 126 : 181–194.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | instrument | self-monitoring | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper presents a new self-learning approach to foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Key factors in this approach are verbal association, programmed rehearsal, auditory input and the use of imagery. Materials are tested out with Chinese university students learning English vocabulary.