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Tracking the Incremental Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary: A Longitudinal Study
1998
Language Learning
Previous vocabulary research has focused on the size of lexicons and the number of words learned through various activities. To date, this type of research has generated little understanding of how individual words are acquired. To explore this issue, I tracked the acquisition of 11 words over the course of a year for 3 adult learners with advanced proficiency in English. I measured 4 kinds of word knowledge: spelling, associations, grammatical information, and meaning. The participants had
doi:10.1111/1467-9922.00042
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