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To empirically test the effect of the pedagogical intervention, a randomized pretest-posttest design with one experimental group and two control groups was adopted. Instruction was conducted following the CLIC instructional model, which involves two steps: inform the learners of the nature of the lexical meaning they should seek, and teach them how to infer lexical meanings.
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Wang, G. (2019). Empirical Research Methodology. In: Using Pedagogic Intervention to Cultivate Contextual Lexical Competence in L2. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92716-9_5
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