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Investigating Age in the Use of L1 or English-Only Instruction: Vocabulary Acquisition by Korean EFL Learners
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This study examines the effects of teachers' language use-first language Korean (L1) or second language English (L2)-on the vocabulary acquisition and retention of two age groups: elementary school children after only a few years of English study (n=443) and adults at university with demonstrably higher levels of proficiency (n=286). Its context is the frequent recommendation by policy makers that L2 teachers should maximize the use of the target language and do so from the very beginning of ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL
- Volume:
- 97
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 887-901
- Publication date:
- 2013-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1540-4781
- ISSN:
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0026-7902
- Source identifiers:
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441593
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- English
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- pubs:441593
- Deposit date:
- 2014-12-26
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- 2013
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