A RESPONSE TO COBB (2007)
Jeff McQuillan
Center for Educational Development
Stephen D. Krashen
University of Southern California
http://llt.msu.edu/vol12num1/pdf/mcquillan.pdf
This article is a response from the writers to an article written by Tom Cobb called COMPUTING THE VOCABULARY DEMANDS OF L2 READING; Cobb claims that free reading,which is when you read because you want to or when it is voluntary, is not enough to achieve vocabulary and , therefore, reading comprehension of L2 readers won't be good enough. On the other hand he gives to computers a highly important role in L2 reading.
The authors give a reinterpretation of Cobb's study and conclude that he underestimates the amount of reading of the L2 readers, because they can read about different topics such us newspapers, novels, academic articles and so on or even if they just read about one issue free reading is a good tool to improve our vocabulary and spelling.
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