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ERIC Number: EJ535876
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0008-4506
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ESL Vocabulary Acquisition: Contextualization and Decontextualization.
Qian, David D.
Canadian Modern Language Review, v53 n1 p120-42 Oct 1996
Challenges the assumption that contextualized vocabulary learning invariably leads to superior retention. The article compares two different instructional treatments in a university classroom experiment in China in the teaching of English as a foreign language: the study of contextualized versus decontextualized English word lists. (40 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Recall (Psychology), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Word Lists
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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