More frequent words were more likely to be learned and were more resistant to decay. ![]() The results show that words can be learned incidentally but that most of the words were not learned. Three tests (word-form recognition, prompted meaning recognition and unprompted meaning recognition) were administered immediately after reading, after one week and after a three month delay. The spelling of each word was changed to ensure that each test item was unknown to the 15 intermediate level (or above) female Japanese subjects. To ascertain whether words of different frequency of occurrence rates were more likely to be learned and retained or forgotten, 25 words within five bands of differing frequency of occurrence (15 to 18 times to those appearing only once) were selected. ![]() This study examined the rate at which vocabulary was learned from reading the 400 headword graded reader A Little Princess.
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