... actually repeated very often in natural texts (such as novels). Nonetheless, we found a repetition effect for the small set of uncommon words that did occur often in a narrative text. In the Mayor of Casterbridge experiment reported in Chapter 4, frequently repeated words were acquired by more of the learners than words that occurred in the text less often. But exposing learners to reading materials specially rewritten to include more repetitions ... book or story offers few opportunities to learn new words through multiple encounters because the needed repetitions simply do not occur. ...

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