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This chapter presents a general background of the present research into cultivating CLIC through pedagogical intervention. It highlights the overall inattention to vocabulary in L2 instruction in different eras, a general neglect of vocabulary instruction for intermediate- or higher-level L2 learners, prevalent memory-oriented pedagogical assumptions and behaviorist vocabulary learning ideology.

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Wang, G. (2019). Introduction. In: Using Pedagogic Intervention to Cultivate Contextual Lexical Competence in L2. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92716-9_1

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