scholarly journals Incidental English Vocabulary Acquisition Through Reading: A Review in the Last Two Decades

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Fangfang Zou ◽  
Xiaoqin Yan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Teaching Implications

This article reviews the empirical research on incidental vocabulary acquisition in English reading in the latest twenty years from three aspects: its comparison with intentional vocabulary acquisition, its affecting factors and previous studies of its problems. Teaching implications have also been provided.

scholarly journals Effect of Computer Multimedia Assisted Word Annotation on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition of English Reading

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Mengqing Han ◽  
Shanshan Niu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Multimedia Annotation ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Research Experiment

This paper aims at researching the effect of computer multimedia assisted word annotation on incidental vocabulary acquisition of English reading of Chinese students. An empirical research experiment is designed based on the ideas of word annotation, incidental vocabulary acquisition, multimedia annotation, and so on. Through analyzing, three main problems are put forward in this paper. In the empirical experiment, two variables of different annotation modes and subjects’ English levels are designed and immediate test and delayed test are adopted. By selecting suitable test subjects, test materials and test tool, an empirical research has been conducted and the corresponding conclusions have been drawn. The re-search takes the effect of individual English level differences on incidental vocabulary acquisition of English reading and the experimental result play a positive role in the selection of suitable computer assisted annotation modes for students of different English levels.

scholarly journals Research on the Influence of Computer Hypermedia Annotations on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in English Reading

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (08) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Lidan Mao ◽  
Yanhong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Reading Vocabulary ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
The Development Trend

This paper aims at disclosing the influence of computer hypermedia annotations on the incidental vocabulary acquisition of Chinese students in English reading. Firstly, the author defines and explains the basic concepts, and summarizes the development trend of English reading vocabulary teaching. Through several experimental cases, the author discusses the effect of different annotation modes, ranging from English mode, Chinese mode, image mode, no-image mode, to the combination of texts and images, on the students’ incidental acquisition of English vocabularies, and analyzes the test results of the experimental cases in light of the characteristics of long-term memory. According to the empirical results, the combination of Chinese annotations and images has better effect than other modes, and plays a positive role in promoting students’ incidental vocabulary acquisition.

INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY ACQUISITION IN A SECOND LANGUAGE

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Huckin ◽  
James Coady
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Incidental Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Intensive Research ◽  
Actual Mechanism ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition

It is widely agreed that much second language vocabulary learning occurs incidentally while the learner is engaged in extensive reading. After a decade of intensive research, however, the incidental learning of vocabulary is still not fully understood, and many questions remain unsettled. Key unresolved issues include the actual mechanism of incidental acquisition, the type and size of vocabulary needed for accurate guessing, the degree of exposure to a word needed for successful acquisition, the efficacy of different word-guessing strategies, the value of teaching explicit guessing strategies, the influence of different kinds of reading texts, the effects of input modification, and, more generally, the problems with incidental learning. This article briefly surveys the empirical research that has been done on these issues in recent years.

The effect of morphological form variation on adult first language incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Lee Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
First Language ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
Morphological Form ◽  
Content Type ◽  
English Novel ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Drawing Tasks

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the effects of word internal morphological form variation on adult first language (L1) (n= 20) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading.Design/methodology/approachParticipants were given a 37,611-token English novel containing pseudo words, placed throughout the text by the novelist. Two unexpected vocabulary assessments were administered at the completion of the reading task.FindingsResults showed statistically significant effects for morphological form variation, with the readers having incidentally acquired more words whose tokens did not vary in form (i.e. no exposure to inflectional or derivational variants). However, a large effect size was present only for low-frequency words (two-four exposures).Originality/valueDiscussion of the results is given regarding the feasibility of enhancing adult L1 college readers’ morphological awareness through extensive reading and attention-drawing tasks.

scholarly journals Impact of Informative Context’s Meaning Consistency During Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-697
Author(s):  
Randy Lowell ◽  
Kaitlyn Wade Pender ◽  
Katherine S. Binder
Keyword(s):  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary ◽  
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
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