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Publication details [#30530]

Swanborn, M. S. L. and K. de Glopper. 2002. Impact of Reading Purpose on Incidental Word Learning From Context. Language Learning 51 (1) : 95–118.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | reading | vocabulary growth in child language

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0023-8333

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/lang

Annotation

This paper examines how child text reading for the different purposes of fun, to learn about the topic of the text, and for text comprehension, influence amounts of incidental word learning.