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    Vocabulary learning can be fun—and free

    Stephen Krashen Comment: The American Library Association is promoting a company that offers only a poor substitute for reading. VerbaLearn offers computerized vocabulary instruction, and the ALA posted this announcement for VerbaLearn on their American Libraries Direct e-newsletter of January 6.

    I wonder if the ALA knows that research overwhelmingly concludes that the best way to build vocabulary is through lots of reading? And that libraries are the best place to find good books?

    Some sources:

    Krashen, S. 1989. We acquire vocabulary and spelling by reading: Additional evidence for the input hypothesis. Modern Language Journal 73: 440-464.

    Mason, B. and Krashen, S. 2004. Is form-focused vocabulary instruction worth-while? RELC Journal 35 (2): 179-185.

    Krashen, S. 2004. The Power of Reading. Libraries Unlimited and Heinemann Publishing Company.

    by Staff

    Vocabulary learning can be fun—and free

    Public libraries can now offer all services on VerbaLearn.com, a website for building vocabulary, to their patrons for free. With the new free library subscription, all patrons of participating libraries get free use of the full-featured VerbaLearn Plus version. VerbaLearn helps students improve their SAT, GRE, ACT, and ESL test scores and also offers courses at the 7th through 12th-grade reading levels...."



    — Staff, American Library Association, Comment by S. Krashen

    2010-01-06

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