Reading, Word-Focused Activities and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in a Second Language.

摘要: Reading is claimed to be the major source of vocabulary growth in L1, but it also main L2 vocabulary? This paper surveys some experiments acquiring from reading that report very small gains short and long texts. By comparison, supplemented with word-focused tasks yields better results. Similarly, when compared a activity alone, latter more effective for acquisition. The hypothesis ‘task-induced involvement load’ suggested as an explanation prediction task efficacy.