Educational researches in the field of vocabulary acquisition emphasize different instructional trends to expand language learners vocabulary knowledge; in this line, a great number of researches along the two major modes have been conducted: acquisition through direct instruction of vocabulary, and incidental vocabulary acquisition through exposure to context. Although the effectiveness of direct instruction has been supported, the sheer size of the vocabulary learning task makes it apparent that direct instruction alone cannot be responsible for all of the words acquired by native speakers...
Educational researches in the field of vocabulary acquisition emphasize different instructional trends to expand language learners vocabulary knowledg...