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Publication details [#66258]

Bordag, Denisa and Maria Rogahn. 2019. The role of literariness in second language incidental vocabulary acquisition. Applied Psycholinguistics 40 (2) : 399–425.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

literary narrative | reading | second language acquisition | text | vocabulary growth

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

In two reading tests implying a self-paced reading task, this study examined how literariness impacts initial stages of incidental vocabulary acquisition (IVA) during reading in second language German. No advantages for IVA were discerned in literary texts compared to nonliterary ones.