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McQuillan, Jeff; Krashen, Stephen D. – Language Learning & Technology, 2008
Cobb (2007) argues that free reading cannot provide L2 readers with sufficient opportunities for acquiring vocabulary in order to reach an adequate level of reading comprehension of English texts. In this paper, the authors argue that (1) Cobb severely underestimates the amount of reading even a very modest reading habit would afford L2 readers,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
Cobb, Tom – Language Learning & Technology, 2008
In the author's piece "Computing the Demands of Vocabulary Acquisition from Reading" ("Language Learning & Technology," October, 2007), he argued that building an adequate functional L2 lexicon for reading from reading alone cannot be done by the majority of learners in the normal time frame of instructed L2 learning. An…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Nouns, Dictionaries, Vocabulary Development