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Denise Bergström; Cathrine Norberg; Marie Nordlund – Education Inquiry, 2025
Learning vocabulary is a central but yet complex aspect of learning a language. Hence, researchers stress the importance of facilitating vocabulary development via a structured approach to target words and recycling. While teaching materials have the potential to provide this structure to all students in a classroom, few studies have investigated…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
Xin Yuan; Xuan Tang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Aim: From the perspective of cognitive load theory, the present study examined the relative effectiveness of the sequential use of L1 and bilingual subtitles on incidental English vocabulary learning. Methods: A total of 162 upper-intermediate Chinese learners of English as a foreign language watched an English clip in one of 4 subtitling…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Recall (Psychology), Native Language, Second Language Learning
Hassan A. Alshumrani – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Vocabulary is often considered as a key predictor of second language ability, and how teachers and learners' beliefs and conceptualizations about vocabulary affect their teaching and learning has recently gained unprecedented momentum in the field of second language education. However, despite their importance, there is a paucity of research that…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xin Yuan; Xuan Tang – Language Awareness, 2025
This study explored the effects of listening-based lexical focus-on-form (lexical FonF) on the acquisition and retention of morphologically complex words. One hundred eighty-two adult English learners with two levels of English proficiency (higher and lower proficiency) from a public university in mainland China were assigned to three different…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Morphology (Languages), Grammar, Second Language Instruction
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)
Hesamoddin Shahriari; Masoud Motamedynia – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
The present study investigated the lexical demands of scripted and unscripted television programs. To that end, two corpora consisting of 286 episodes from 14 different programs, both scripted and unscripted, were analyzed. The results indicated that the 1,000 most frequent word families, plus proper nouns, marginal words, transparent compounds,…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Television, Programming (Broadcast)
Barghamadi, Maryam; Rogers, James; Muller, Amanda – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Knowledge of multi-word units (MWUs) helps facilitate communicative fluency, and research on them has gained more and more attention in recent years concerning teaching methods and designing materials for second language (L2) acquisition. Incidental and intentional vocabulary learning are two dominant approaches to acquiring MWUs. In lexical…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
Webb, Stuart; Chang, Anna C.-S. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
There has been little research investigating how mode of input affects incidental vocabulary learning, and no study examining how it affects the learning of multiword items. The aim of this study was to investigate incidental learning of L2 collocations in three different modes: reading, listening, and reading while listening. One hundred…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Phrase Structure, Undergraduate Students, Comparative Analysis
Mirzaei, Azizullah; Farhang, Maryam; Eslami, Zohreh – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
Emergentist, usage-based L2 research has witnessed that emphasizing formulaic sequences as entry points in meaning-based instructional contexts contributes to the development of linguistic comprehension and production. Related studies have thus far striven to find the most effective methods of highlighting these word strings. This study explored…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mark Feng Teng; Atsushi Mizumoto – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study was to assess the spoken vocabulary knowledge and its role in incidental vocabulary learning from captioned television. The participants were a total of 87 minority students learning English as a foreign language in Australia. The breadth of their vocabulary knowledge was measured with a vocabulary size test, while the depth of their…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Bergström, Denise; Norberg, Cathrine; Nordlund, Marie – Language Awareness, 2022
Vocabulary is a core feature of language proficiency, requiring explicit attention in the language classroom. As teachers' conceptualizations influence their teaching, their understanding of vocabulary deserves closer attention. Yet, few teacher cognition studies focus on vocabulary, and even fewer on non-native teachers' conceptualizations of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Ankawi, Ayman – English Language Teaching, 2022
Education outcomes for L2 students in academic preparation programs, undergraduate studies, and graduate work are directly influenced by the learning and use of academic vocabulary. Among 15 Saudi graduate students studying in New Zealand, this study investigated at their perspectives with academic vocabulary learning. Students in Saudi Arabia who…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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
Fukuta, Junya; Yamashita, Junko – Second Language Research, 2023
This study investigates how implicit and explicit learning and knowledge are associated, by focusing on the salience of target form--meaning connections. The participants were engaged in incidental learning of artificial determiner systems that included grammatical rules of [± plural] (a taught rule), [± actor] (a more salient hidden rule), and [±…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Grammar, Incidental Learning, Task Analysis
Yanagisawa, Akifumi; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2021
The involvement load hypothesis (ILH) was designed to predict the effectiveness of instructional tasks for incidental L2 vocabulary learning. In this meta-analysis we examined 398 effect sizes from 42 empirical studies (N = 4,628) to explore (a) the overall predictive ability of the ILH, (b) the relative effects of different components of the ILH…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction