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Green, Clarence – Language Learning & Technology, 2022
This paper computes estimates of the potential for Extensive Reading (ER) and Extensive Viewing (EV) to support the academic and discipline-specific vocabulary needs of students. While research into ER/EV for general vocabulary is well-established, only recently has academic vocabulary begun to be researched. Given curriculum time constraints,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Incidental Learning
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Lakarnchua, Onuma – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
The learning of English can help learners to not only understand and enjoy cultural products of the target language community, but also allows them to share what they enjoy in their own language community, or other communities to which English grants them access, with the world. Fansubbing, or the amateur production of multilingual subtitles for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Trinder, Ruth – ELT Journal, 2017
Due to the ready availability of new technologies, opportunities for the incidental as well as deliberate practice of English have multiplied and far exceed what can be done in more formal environments. Yet, despite the sizeable literature on the classroom-based use of specific digital resources, few studies have investigated how students evaluate…
Descriptors: Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Csomay, Eniko; Petrovic, Marija – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
Vocabulary is an essential element of every second/foreign language teaching and learning program. While the goal of language teaching programs is to focus on explicit vocabulary teaching to promote learning, "materials which provide visual and aural input such as movies may be conducive to incidental vocabulary learning." (Webb and Rodgers, 2009,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning
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Kuppens, An H. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
A number of experimental studies have demonstrated the incidental acquisition of a foreign language by children and adolescents when watching foreign language television. While such experiments can only establish short-term effects, this article investigates the extent to which children's foreign language skills benefit from their long-term…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Language Skills