Research within the realm of second language acquisition has demonstrated salience reading for learning incidental vocabulary. Although many studies have investigated vocabulary through reading, only a few explored extent to which is dependent on pleasure and frequency extensive reading. In an attempt fill this gap, study reports association between competence free pleasure, 239 Indian ESL lear...

______________________ This study examines the relationship among access to reading materials, print exposure, and vocabulary acquisition among language minority (LM) students in United States. Access to print, print exposure, and English vocabulary knowledge were measured through the use of surveys and signal-detection checklists with a group of Spanish/English bilingual high school students (...

Differences in literacy growth over the summer versus the school year were examined in order to isolate how schooling affects children's literacy development from preschool through second grade across four literacy skills. Children (n = 383) were tested individually twice each year for up to four years on measures of phonological awareness, decoding, reading comprehension, and vocabulary. Growt...