Review on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading

Abstract

The teaching and research of vocabulary acquisition, after having been neglected for decades in the arena of second language teaching and learning, has assumed its rightful place as a fundamentally important part of language development. Much research has been done on second language vocabulary acquisition. Among them plenty of studies have been conducted to find out how to enhance incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading. In the present paper, related research has been reviewed and evaluated, providing helpful information for future research.