Why vocabulary is so important

a decontextualised list of words to learn. If learners are encouraged to choose which words from a text they would like to learn retention is further improved, as demonstrated by Atkinson (1972), who suggests learners who choose which vocabulary to learn perform 50% better in retention tests than when they had to study word lists set for them. ................
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