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Tang, Zhongqing – English Language Teaching, 2020
Vocabulary acquisition, after being neglected for centuries, aroused people's attention from the second half of last century. At that time, people began to realize, instead of grammar, vocabulary occupies the central role in language acquisition (Gass & Selinker, 1994). Compared with intentional vocabulary acquisition, incidental vocabulary…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, Educational Research
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Zhang, Qiuxin – English Language Teaching, 2021
With the rapid development of economy and technology, more and more fields are combined with electronic intelligence and artificial intelligence, and language teaching is no exception. As a research hot issue, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has attracted more and more people's attention. Based on computer-aided technology, teachers can…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Segura, Marta; Roquet, Helena; Barón, Júlia – English Language Teaching, 2021
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become the focus of Foreign Language (FL) research within the last decades. CLIL provides a more complete, naturalistic, and meaningful context to FL learning, which has proven to bring many benefits to learners, such as a higher motivation and promotion of creativity, and better results in…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
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Alsadoon, Reem – English Language Teaching, 2021
In the AI field of language learning, chatterbots are an interesting area for language learning and practice. This research investigates Arabic EFL vocabulary learning using an interactive storytelling chatterbot. A chatterbot was created and equipped with four vocabulary tools: a dictionary, images, an L1 translation tool, and a concordancer. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Salem, Ashraf Atta M. S. – English Language Teaching, 2019
This study explores the impact of using TED Talks on improving oral presentation skills of Business English students and vocabulary uptake/retention. It also assesses the impact of improving such hard cognitive skills on increasing Business majors' speaking anxiety level. Sequential explanatory mixed method was used, which includes both…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speeches
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Masoudi, Golfam – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study was designed to investigate empirically the effect of Vocabulary Self-Selection strategy and Input Enhancement strategy on the vocabulary knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners. After taking a diagnostic pretest, both experimental groups enrolled in two classes. Learners who practiced Vocabulary Self-Selection were allowed to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Mohammed, Halah Abdulelah; Majid, Norazman Abdul; Abdullah, Tina – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study addressed the potential methodological issues effect of attentional condition on subsequent vocabulary development from a different perspective, which addressed several potential methodological issues of previous research that have been based on psycholinguistic notion of second language learner as a limited capacity processor. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension
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Ozcan, Mehmet – English Language Teaching, 2012
This study is designed to investigate whether the sequence of input is influential in the recollection of the retained information. Eighty first year students, 40 girls and 40 boys, studying in ELT department participated in the study. Three tasks were administered to the participants. In the first test three different lists of words and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Negari, Giti Mousapour; Rouhi, Mahdieh – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present article reports on the results of a study designed to investigate the effects of two types of lexical modification i.e., lexical simplification and elaboration, on incidental vocabulary acquisition of Iranian EFL learners.To this end, four versions of experimental texts containing 20 target words were created: baseline and simplified…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, English (Second Language)
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Yi, Baoshu; Sun, Zhinong – English Language Teaching, 2013
The study aimed to investigate whether or not negotiation of meaning is effective in L2 vocabulary acquisition of Chinese learners of English in the classroom setting. In the study there were two experimental groups (pre-modified input and negotiation of meaning) and two control groups (pre-modified input). The four groups were required to do a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Pretests Posttests
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Guo, Siao-cing – English Language Teaching, 2012
Current literature points to the importance and benefits of extensive reading. Extensive reading provides contextualized clues for better reading comprehension (Krashen, 1982), and substantial linguistic input (Bell, 1998) needed for language development. Several studies have found a correlation between extensive reading and specific linguistic…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction