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Publication details [#32908]

Mondria, Jan-Arjen and Marijke Wit-De Boer. 1991. The Effects of Contextual Richness on the Guessability and the Retention of Words in a Foreign Language. Applied Linguistics 12 (3) : 249–267.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | foreign language acquisition | guessing | vocabulary growth

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper examines the influence of contextual factors on the guessability and receptive retention of words in a foreign language.