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Qian, David D. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 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)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect