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Pre-Learning Low-Frequency Vocabulary in Second Language Television Programmes
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Webb, Stuart – Language Teaching Research, 2010
This study investigated the potential of pre-learning frequently occurring low-frequency vocabulary as a means to increase comprehension of television and incidental vocabulary learning through watching television. Eight television programmes, each representing different television genres, were analysed using the RANGE program to determine the 10…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Television, Second Language Learning, Incidental Learning
Selecting Television Programs for Language Learning: Investigating Television Programs from the Same Genre
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Webb, Stuart – International Journal of English Studies, 2011
The scripts of 288 television episodes were analysed to determine the extent to which vocabulary reoccurs in television programs from the same subgenres and unrelated television programs from different genres. Episodes from two programs from each of the following three subgenres of the American drama genre: medical, spy/action, and criminal…
Descriptors: Television, Scripts, Classification, Morphemes