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Joseph R. Jenkins, Barbara Matlock, Timothy A. Slocum, Two Approaches to Vocabulary Instruction: The Teaching of Individual Word Meanings and Practice in Deriving Word Meaning from Context, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1989), pp. 215-235
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