Reading and Vocabulary Acquisition: Supporting Evidence and Some Objections

Document Type : Original Article

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University of Southern California, US

Abstract

I continue here the long-standing discussion on the familiar topic of whether subconscious language acquisition is more powerful than conscious language learning, with a focus on vocabulary, adding recent studies as well as older ones I missed in previous publications on this topic (e.g. Krashen, 2004). 

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Volume 1, Issue 1
January 2013
Pages 27-43
  • Receive Date: 07 December 2012
  • Revise Date: 11 December 2012
  • Accept Date: 18 December 2012
  • First Publish Date: 01 January 2013