Paper

Long-term Incidental Acquisition of New Vocabulary: The Effect of Task Type and the Number of Word Occurrences


Bella Rozovski-Roitblat (University of Haifa)
Batia Laufer (University of Haifa)
 
Program Summary
We investigated two factors affecting long-term L2 word acquisition: frequency
of occurrence (2-21) and task type: reading, reading +Focus on Form, and reading +Focus on Forms. Overall, the latter fared best on four tests of word knowledge. Frequency of occurrence contributed differently to different task types on different tests.

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