... offers few opportunities to learn new words through multiple encounters because the needed repetitions simply do not occur. Even when texts are long, only a small number of words meet the key criteria of being both uncommon and much repeated. For instance, in all 21,000 words of the simplified version of The Mayor of Casterbridge, we were able to identify only eight items that were both ... have focused on the implications of the text frequency findings. Another result that has implications for materials design is the finding that large vocabulary gains were associated with reading an ill...

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