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Min Gao; Jiancheng Qian; Ushba Rasool – SAGE Open, 2024
This study investigates the impact of task-induced involvement and time on task on incidental second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition. Utilizing a 3 (task-induced involvement) × 2 (time on task) × 2 (post-test time) research design, three task-induced involvement conditions were employed based on the Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH): reading…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Incidental Learning, Task Analysis, Correlation
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Chi Duc Nguyen – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
Research shows that meaning-focused reading offers opportunities for incidental grammar acquisition. However, the number of such studies remains limited and none have examined the role of both in-text encounters with grammar structures and reading comprehension in this learning. The present study filled these gaps. Employing a between-group,…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Grammar, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
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Hui, Bronson – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
I investigated the trajectory of processing variability, as measured by coefficient of variation (CV), using an intentional word learning experiment and reanalyzing published eye-tracking data of an incidental word learning study (Elgort et al., 2018). In the word learning experiment, native English speakers (N = 35) studied Swahili-English word…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Eye Movements
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Namaziandost, Ehsan; Sawalmeh, Murad Hassan Mohammed; Tilwani, Shouket Ahmad; Ziafar, Meisam; Arianti, Arin; Hernández, Ronald M.; Razzhivin, Oleg Anatolevich; Ocaña-Fernández, Yolvi; Fuster-Guillén, Doris; Garay, Jessica Palacios – SAGE Open, 2021
Ensuring second language (L2) learners have an adequate breadth and depth of L2 vocabulary knowledge is a key pedagogical objective in L2 learning contexts. For this reason, establishing guiding principles that successfully enhance the efficacy of L2 vocabulary knowledge development is of strong importance. The current study investigated the value…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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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
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Tajeddin, Zia; Daraee, Dina – TESL-EJ, 2013
The present study investigated the effect of form-focused and non-form-focused tasks on EFL learners' vocabulary learning through written input. The form-focused task aimed to draw students' attention to the word itself through word recognition activities. Non-form-focused tasks were divided into (a) the comprehension question task, which required…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Word Recognition, Control Groups, Experimental Groups