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Cornillie, Frederik; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Van den Branden, Kris; Desmet, Piet – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
Behaviour-tracking technology has been used for decades in SLA research on focused practice with an eye toward elucidating the nature of L2 automatization (e.g. DeKeyser, 1997; Robinson, 1997). This involves longitudinally capturing learners' judgments or linguistic production along with their response times in order to investigate how specific…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Eye Movements, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
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Perez, Maribel Montero; Peters, Elke; Clarebout, Geraldine; Desmet, Piet – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
This study examines how three captioning types (i.e., on-screen text in the same language as the video) can assist L2 learners in the incidental acquisition of target vocabulary words and in the comprehension of L2 video. A sample of 133 Flemish undergraduate students watched three French clips twice. The control group (n = 32) watched the clips…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Layout (Publications), Second Language Instruction
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Peters, Elke – Language Learning & Technology, 2007
This study explored the effect of two enhancement techniques on L2 learners' look-up behaviour during a reading task and word retention afterwards amongst Flemish learners of German: a Vocabulary Test Announcement and Task-induced Word Relevance. Eighty-four participants were recruited for this study. They were randomly assigned to one of two…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Dictionaries, Retention (Psychology)