Then we discuss problems in the research and how they can be addressed. ... 2.1 Recapitulating the findings The thesis set out to demonstrate what had seemed initially to be a simple truth: Extensive reading is good for L2 vocabulary development because you will run into new words often and this will help you learn them. ... One of the first problems we encountered was that few of the words that most learners are likely to be interested in acquiring are actually repeated very often in natural texts (such as novels). ... The fourth finding was especially intriguing: the probability matrices bas...

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