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The Importance Of Time For Processing In Second Language Comprehension And Acquisition, Jennifer Lee Watson
The Importance Of Time For Processing In Second Language Comprehension And Acquisition, Jennifer Lee Watson
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Research findings on the positive impact of interaction on comprehension have led to questions regarding both the connection between comprehension and acquisition and the qualities of interaction which facilitate understanding (Ellis et al. 1994). Ellis et al. found that a high degree of comprehension on an activity which contained unknown words correlated with a high rate of vocabulary acquisition. The present study replicates the activity and testing procedures used by Ellis et al. The main focus of the Ellis et al. study was the connection between second language comprehension and acquisition. This study differs from Ellis et al. in that …