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Learning Words from Dictionaries and Context: a Replication

Year: 1999

Type: article

Abstract: Two means by which second language learners encounter and learn new words are through reading L2 texts and by looking up words in monolingual learners' dictionaries. How the word knowledge gained via these means differs is not fully understood. This paper reports a replication of an experiment by U. Fischer (1994) investigating this question, although differing from Fischer's experiment in two main ways: the subjects' L1 and the source material. The results of the study did confirm the greater accuracy of subjects using dictionary definitions, but they also highlighted a number of major design faults in the experimental methods employed.

Source: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)

Author: James Ronald

Language: Japanese

Topic: Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W601758629

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