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Elgort, Irina; Beliaeva, Natalia; Boers, Frank – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Access to definitions facilitates the learning of word meanings when novel words are encountered in reading. However, the memorial costs and benefits of inferring word meanings from context, compared to seeing definitions of unfamiliar words before reading, are not yet well understood. We conducted two experiments with adult L1 (English) and L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Inferences, Recall (Psychology)
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Majuddin, Elvenna; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna; Boers, Frank – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
There has been limited research on the efficacy of captioned second language (L2) television in facilitating the incidental acquisition of multiword expressions (MWEs). The present study aims to fill this gap. Additionally, this study examines the role of typographic enhancement and repetition. One-hundred and twenty-two L2 learners were assigned…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Television Viewing