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Jiawei Wang; Jun Wang – SAGE Open, 2025
In order to explore the cognitive mechanisms and processing involved in incidental vocabulary acquisition, this study examines whether two crucial cognitive factors, attention and working memory, influence incidental vocabulary acquisition during second language reading. Employing a combined online-offline approach, attention, working memory, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, Second Language Learning
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Godfroid, Aline; Boers, Frank; Housen, Alex – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
This eye-tracking study tests the hypothesis that more attention leads to more learning, following claims that attention to new language elements in the input results in their initial representation in long-term memory (i.e., intake; Robinson, 2003; Schmidt, 1990, 2001). Twenty-eight advanced learners of English read English texts that contained…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development