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Webb, Stuart; Newton, Jonathan; Chang, Anna – Language Learning, 2013
This study investigated the effects of repetition on the learning of collocation. Taiwanese university students learning English as a foreign language simultaneously read and listened to one of four versions of a modified graded reader that included different numbers of encounters (1, 5, 10, and 15 encounters) with a set of 18 target collocations.…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Cress, Ulrike; Held, Christoph; Kimmerle, Joachim – Computers & Education, 2013
Tag clouds generated in social tagging systems can capture the collective knowledge of communities. Using as a basis spreading activation theories, information foraging theory, and the co-evolution model of cognitive and social systems, we present here a model for an "extended information scent," which proposes that both collective and individual…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Strategies, Hypermedia, Social Networks
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Shintani, Natsuko – Language Teaching Research, 2012
The study reported in this article investigated the use of input-based tasks with young, beginner learners of English as a second language by examining both learning outcomes (i.e. acquisition) and the interactions that resulted from implementing the tasks. The participants were 15 learners, aged six, with no experience of second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Young Children, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
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Choudry, Aziz; Bleakney, David – McGill Journal of Education, 2013
Trade unions and other sites of community-labour organizing such as workers centres are rich, yet contested spaces of education and knowledge production in which both non-formal and informal / incidental forms of learning occur. Putting forward a critique of dominant strands of worker education, the authors ask what spaces exist for social…
Descriptors: Unions, Labor Education, Informal Education, Nonformal Education
Clark, Marilyn Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The primary purpose of this study was to examine how African American women in corporations develop leadership and construct their leadership style through informal and incidental learning experiences. This study explored relationships between informal adult learning and career mapping processes of leadership for African American women. A…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Incidental Learning, African Americans, Females
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Yamamoto, Yuka – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2011
It is well established that extensive reading promotes the incidental learning of L1 and L2 receptive vocabulary; however, little is known about its effectiveness on productive gains in vocabulary knowledge. This paper investigates the extent to which extensive reading combined with writing tasks promotes productive vocabulary growth of Japanese…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Reading
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Rebuschat, Patrick; Williams, John N. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
Language development is frequently characterized as a process where learning proceeds implicitly, that is, incidentally and in absence of awareness of what was learned. This article reports the results of two experiments that investigated whether second language acquisition can also result in implicit knowledge. Adult learners were trained on an…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Language Acquisition, Second Languages, Language Tests
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Brusnighan, Stephen M.; Folk, Jocelyn R. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
In two studies, we investigated how skilled readers use contextual and morphemic information in the process of incidental vocabulary acquisition during reading. In Experiment 1, we monitored skilled readers' eye movements while they silently read sentence pairs containing novel and known English compound words that were either semantically…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Cues, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development
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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)
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Langdon, Jonathan – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2011
Ghana has been identified as an important example of democracy in Africa, yet the story of this democratic success overlooks the crucial role social movement activism and learning have played in locally reconfiguring and deepening what democracy means. A key dimension of this overlooked-story is ongoing efforts to contest both local and global…
Descriptors: Democracy, Incidental Learning, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries
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Legge, Maureen; Smith, Wayne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This article reports research that critically examined our teacher education outdoor education pedagogy. The purpose was to use visual ethnography to critique our teaching over twenty years of annual five-day bush-based residential camps. The bush camps were situated in an outdoor education programme contributing to a four-year undergraduate…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Experiential Learning, Outdoor Education, Teaching Methods
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Ehsanzadeh, Seyed Jafar – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
This study explores the roles of depth and breadth of lexical repertoire in L2 lexical inferencing success and incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading. Students read a graded reader containing 13 pseudo-words and attempted to infer the meanings of underlined target words. The Word Associates Test (WAT, Read, 2004) and the Vocabulary…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Correlation, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Wofford, Michael Grant; Ellinger, Andrea D.; Watkins, Karen E. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2013
Purpose: This study aims to examine the process of informal learning of aviation instructors. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative instrumental case study design was used for this study. In-depth, multiple semi-structured interviews and document review were the primary approaches to data collection and the data were analyzed using constant…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grounded Theory, Comparative Analysis, Work Environment
Ikin, Kerrie, Ed. – Australian College of Educators, 2016
The theme of the 2016 National Conference of the Australian College of Educators (ACE), "Challenges and changes: The power of education to build the world to which we aspire," provided a unique opportunity for education professionals to carefully consider and propose papers, workshops, and poster sessions to stimulate discussion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, College Faculty
Merriweather, Lisa R. – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
Arts-based adult education has been embraced by a growing number of adult educators. These educators have explored its potential in the workplace, in the community and in academia. This article contributes to this work by exploring the Spoken Word, an art form located within the genre of poetry, and its potential as a tool of arts-based adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Art Education, Poetry, Social Change
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