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I was glad to receive a response from Jeff McQuillan and Stephen Krashen to my piece "Computing the Demands of Vocabulary Acquisition from Reading" (Language Learning & Technology, October, 2007), because drafting a reply forces me to be even more clear about what I am saying. I was initially surprised to see the lead responder was an expert in first language (L1) reading rather than second (L2) but on second thought McQuillan’s (The Literacy Crisis, 1998) participation makes sense.
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