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Direct linkBrown, Dale – TESOL Journal, 2021
This article reports on a study that combined two strands of research: studies of incidental vocabulary learning and studies of the classroom lexical environment (in which vocabulary exposure is measured and the potential for learning estimated). The study looked at the orthographic lexical environment in a language classroom over a semester and…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Reynolds, Barry Lee – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2019
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of word internal morphological form variation on adult first language (L1) (n = 20) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading. Design/methodology/approach: Participants were given a 37,611-token English novel containing pseudo words, placed throughout the text by the novelist. Two…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Task Analysis, Word Frequency
Download full textZhou, Jing; Day, Richard R. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2020
The study investigated the effect of marginal glossing and frequency of occurrence on the incidental learning of six aspects of vocabulary knowledge through reading in the second language (L2) Chinese. Participants were 30 intermediate L2 Chinese learners in an American public university. The MACOVA tests indicated that the treatment group who…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Luo, Jian-ping – English Language Teaching, 2013
For learning English as a foreign language, the efficiency of the approach of incidental vocabulary acquisition depends on the word frequency and text coverage. However, the statistics of English corpus reveals that English is a language that has a large vocabulary size but a low word frequency as well as text coverage, which is obviously not in…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Eckerth, Johannes; Tavakoli, Parveneh – Language Teaching Research, 2012
Research on incidental second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition through reading has claimed that repeated encounters with unfamiliar words and the relative elaboration of processing these words facilitate word learning. However, so far both variables have been investigated in isolation. To help close this research gap, the current study…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency, Word Recognition
Tekmen, E. Anne Ferrell; Daloglu, Aysegul – Foreign Language Annals, 2006
This study examined the relationship between learners' incidental vocabulary acquisition and their level of proficiency, and between acquisition and word frequency in a text. Participants were Turkish learners of English at three proficiency levels. One reading text and four vocabulary tests were administered over a two-week period. Analyses of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Proficiency, Word Frequency, English (Second Language)
