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Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition: The Effects of Task Type, Word Occurrence and Their Combination
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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