In a survey of 41 institute students, sport was the most liked reading topic and geography among the most disliked¶

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q2 i? Of 41 students randomly chosen from five classes, most selected sport as their favorite subject and geography as one they would rather avoid, establishing sport as the favored and geography as the disfavored context. → Rezaei and Dezhara 2011

Evidence¶

Rezaei and Dezhara 2011¶

Omid Rezaei, Salman Dezhara. (2011). An Investigation of the Possible Effects of Favored Contexts in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition. English Language Teaching, 4(4). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v4n4p97

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Questionnaire administered to 41 students randomly chosen from five classes at the same institute (Table 1). The table shows sport with the most 'Like' responses and geography with more 'Dislike' than 'Like' responses, which the authors used to define favored and disfavored contexts.

"forty-one students of the same institute were given a questionnaire to choose their most favorite subject of study as well as the one they would rather avoid reading about"

Discussion¶

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