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There has been considerable research conducted on the effects of meaning, frequency, context, and redundancy on word identification in first language (hereafter L1) reading comprehension. The first part of this paper will review some of the major research that has been presented concerning each of these factors.
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Perkins, K., Brutten, S.R. (1982). Word Frequency and Contextual Richness in Esl Word Identification. In: Frawley, W. (eds) Linguistics and Literacy. Topics in Language and Linguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9302-7_19
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