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Laufer, Batia; Rozovski-Roitblat, Bella – Language Teaching Research, 2011
We investigated how long-term retention of new words was affected by task type, number of word occurrences in the teaching materials and the combination of the two factors. The tasks were: reading a text with occasional Focus on Form when learners used dictionaries (T+F), or reading a text with Focus on Forms, i.e. word focused exercises (T+Fs).…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning
Caruso, Shirley J. – Online Submission, 2009
This paper imparts the value of recognizing, embracing, integrating, and supporting informal workplace learning. The author uses research as well as her undergraduate and graduate studies in the field of Human Resource Development (HRD) and professional career experiences as a construction project manager to make a correlation between informal…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Integrated Curriculum, Correlation
Pratapchandran, Sarat – Educational Facility Planner, 2009
An innovative learning technique that originated in a slum in India's capital, New Delhi, sets the stage for "Q&A" that is now the Oscar winning movie, "Slumdog Millionaire". In an interview, Dr. Sugata Mitra, the creator of this new educational pedagogy termed Minimally Invasive Education (MIE), explains how it can help…
Descriptors: Slums, Foreign Countries, Incidental Learning, Educational Technology
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Russo, Angelina; Watkins, Jerry; Groundwater-Smith, Susan – Educational Media International, 2009
This paper posits that social networking can take a central role in learning in informal environments such as museums, libraries and galleries. It argues that social media offers young people agency previously unavailable in informal learning environments in order to explore complex responses to and participation with cultural content. The paper…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Context Effect, Incidental Learning, Informal Education
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Eckerth, Johannes; Tavakoli, Parveneh – Language Teaching Research, 2012
Research on incidental second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition through reading has claimed that repeated encounters with unfamiliar words and the relative elaboration of processing these words facilitate word learning. However, so far both variables have been investigated in isolation. To help close this research gap, the current study…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency, Word Recognition
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Kabata, Kaori; Edasawa, Yasuyo – Language Learning & Technology, 2011
Patterns of students' language learning were examined through an asynchronous cross-cultural bilingual communication project conducted between Japanese university students learning English and Canadian university students learning Japanese. Previous studies on cross-cultural communication projects have reported positive outcomes in providing…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
Pellicer-Sanchez, Ana; Schmitt, Norbert – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Nation (2006) has calculated that second language (L2) learners require much more vocabulary than previously thought to be functional with language (e.g., 8,000-9,000 word families to read independently). This level is far beyond the highest graded reader, and would be difficult to explicitly teach. One way for learners to be exposed to…
Descriptors: Spelling, Vocabulary Development, Novels, Incidental Learning
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Grenier, Robin S. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2009
The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine how docents developed expertise within the context of their work with history museums. Twelve expert docents from four history-themed museums were interviewed to discover how expertise is developed by volunteers working in nonformal settings. Interpretation of the data revealed two primary…
Descriptors: Museums, Expertise, Volunteers, Volunteer Training
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Schlaghecken, Friederike; Blagrove, Elisabeth; Maylor, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Subliminal motor priming effects in the masked prime paradigm can only be obtained when primes are part of the task set. In 2 experiments, the authors investigated whether the relevant task set feature needs to be explicitly instructed or could be extracted automatically in an incidental learning paradigm. Primes and targets were symmetrical…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Experiments, Models, Developmental Tasks
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Ratliff, Kristin R.; Newcombe, Nora S. – Cognitive Psychology, 2008
Being able to reorient to the spatial environment after disorientation is a basic adaptive challenge. There is clear evidence that reorientation uses geometric information about the shape of the surrounding space. However, there has been controversy concerning whether use of geometry is a modular function, and whether use of features is dependent…
Descriptors: Language Role, Incidental Learning, Spatial Ability, Geometric Concepts
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Deconinck, Julie; Boers, Frank; Eyckmans, June – AILA Review, 2010
The pace at which new words are acquired is influenced by the degree of engagement with them on the part of the learner. Insights from cognitive linguistics into the non-arbitrary aspects of vocabulary can be turned into stimuli for such engagement. The majority of Cognitive Linguists' proposals for vocabulary teaching aim at helping learners…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Instruction
Han, ZhaoHong; Chen, Cheng-ling Alice – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Repeated reading, a procedure involving repetition of the same text, has received copious attention from first language reading research providing highly converging evidence of its potency for reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension. In contrast, second language research on repeated reading has been scarce. The very few studies extant have,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Language Research, Reading Research, Reading Fluency
Horst, Marlise – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Opportunities for incidental vocabulary acquisition were explored in a 121,000-word corpus of teacher talk addressed to advanced adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) in a communicatively-oriented conversation class. In contrast to previous studies that relied on short excerpts, the corpus contained all of the teacher speech the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning
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Bell, Phillipa K.; Collins, Laura – Language Awareness, 2009
Research has shown that second language (L2) learners that become aware of linguistic features during grammar-based tasks are better able to process these features on a posttest compared to learners that do not focus on these features. However, much L2 input does not come in the form of grammar-based tasks. This study investigates whether learners…
Descriptors: Nouns, Protocol Analysis, Metalinguistics, Incidental Learning
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Martin, Maryanne; Jones, Gregory V. – Cognition, 2007
Studies of autobiographical memory have shown that observed levels of incidental learning are often relatively low. Do low levels of retention result simply from a low learning rate, or is learning also asymptotic? To address this question, it is necessary to trace performance over a large number of learning opportunities, and this was carried out…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Memory, Incidental Learning, Telecommunications
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