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From http://backseatlinguist.com/
 
Jeff Mcquillan summarizes a recent paper by Flack and Horst in which they compare toddlers’ acquisition of new words from storybooks illustrated on both pages with what they acquired from books illustrated on only one page. Their findings suggest that comprehensible input is most effective with there’s just the right amount of context - not so little that little meaning can be extracted, but not so much that learners have no need to attend to new information.
 
Read the summary at http://backseatlinguist.com/blog/the-goldilocks-corollary-to-the-input-hypothesis/