Incidental vocabulary learning from reading
= Incidental vocabulary learning from reading
<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.<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]{ref}