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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition"”.
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The role of working memory in the incidental vocabulary acquisition /
… different cognitive mechanisms involved in the vocabulary acquisition process. This research is a replication of Anna Pelicer Sanchez's study Incidental L2 vocabulary acquisition from and while Reading but it specifically focuses on the correlation between the working memory and incidental …
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Reading anxiety's effects on incidental vocabulary acquisition: Are culturally relevant texts exempt?
… the relationships among reading anxiety, incidental vocabulary acquisition and culturally relevant texts. Thirty adult ESL students, 16 of Mexican origin and 14 of Chinese origin, completed modified forms of the Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Survey, vocabulary tests assessed on the …
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The Role of Grammatical Word Class in Second Language Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Reading
… class may have positively influenced learners' acquisition of the target words' grammatical class. Further statistical analyses showed that text comprehension had an insignificant effect upon gain and retention of grammatical class and word meaning. Topic familiarity was determined to have an …
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The Effect of Exposure Frequency and Reading Comprehension on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention Through Reading for Learners of German as a Foreign Language
… learners acquire a significant amount of vocabulary incidentally during reading after only two exposures, and that receptive as well as productive gains are moderately to strongly related to learners' text comprehension. It was further found that two or four exposures resulted in fairly …
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The effects of hypermedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension
… examined the role of hypermedia annotations on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension (AI-Seghayer, 2001; Chun & Plass, 1996; Gettys, Imhof & Kautz, 2001; Laufer & Hill, 2000; Lomicka, 1998). Of particular interest has been the effect of multiple-choice glosses with computer …
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Incidental acquisition of productive academic vocabulary
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