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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether EFL learners with advanced reading proficiency could acquire full or partial vocabulary knowledge from reading an authentic text. Fifty-seven advanced-level college EFL learners were asked to read a bestseller non-fiction self-help book titled The One Thing in the same manner as they normally do outside the classroom within the limit of 4 weeks. Upon the completion of reading, productive and receptive recall vocabulary tests and a semantic priming task were administered to determine whether extensive reading experience can enhance both explicit and implicit lexical knowledge. The results showed that the participants acquired vocabulary through reading, but only relatively small amounts. With regards to implicit vocabulary knowledge, positive semantic priming effects were observed in lexical decision task, which indicates that the participants were able to form lexical representations of target words.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
vocabulary acquisition, incidental vocabulary acquisition, vocabulary knowledge, extensive reading
