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Publication details [#40059]

Palmberg, Rolf. 1987. On lexical inferencing and the young foreign-language learner. System 15 (1) : 69–76.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

fairy tale | foreign language acquisition | inference | meaning | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper provides the outline and main findings of an experiment that required young, Swedish-speaking English as a foreign language learners to read two passages from an English fairytale for meaning.