Learning about unfamiliar words during engagement with text without direct vocabulary instruction. Small encounter-level gains can be measurable, but long-term extrapolations depend on reading amount, prior knowledge and test sensitivity.[ref]
Learning Words from Context by William E. Nagy and others. Reading Research Quarterly 20, 233–253; incidental word knowledge after reading natural text and limited extrapolation
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