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Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen; Webb, Stuart; Coxhead, Averil – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Recently researchers have proposed using information from teachers and learners to supplement the information from corpora in the selection of the most useful words for foreign language learners. Yet the extent to which these data sets correlate to one another is unclear. This study explicitly investigated the relationships between (a) the lexical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
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Iwaizumi, Emi; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2023
This study explores the effects of receptive derivational affix knowledge, derivative frequency, part of speech, and vocabulary breadth on production of derivatives. Twenty-one speakers of English as a first language and 107 learners of English as a second language were asked to produce derivatives for 90 prompt words on a decontextualized…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Pavia, Niousha; Webb, Stuart; Faez, Farahnaz – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Research investigating incidental vocabulary learning through listening to songs has primarily relied on participants' self-report surveys on listening behaviors and its relationship with their vocabulary knowledge (Kuppens, 2010). Only one experimental study has investigated vocabulary learning gains from listening to songs (Medina, 1993). From…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Singing, Correlation
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Jin, Zhouhan; Webb, Stuart – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study investigated incidental learning of single-word items and collocations through listening to teacher talk. Although there are several studies that have investigated incidental vocabulary learning through listening, no intervention studies have explicitly investigated the extent to which listening to teachers in a classroom context might…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Native Language, Pretests Posttests, Correlation
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Uchihara, Takumi; Webb, Stuart; Yanagisawa, Akifumi – Language Learning, 2019
This meta-analysis aimed to clarify the complex relationship between repetition and second language (L2) incidental vocabulary learning by meta-analyzing primary studies reporting correlation coefficients between the number of encounters and vocabulary learning. We synthesized and quantitatively analyzed 45 effect sizes from 26 studies (N = 1,918)…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Saito, Kazuya; Webb, Stuart; Trofimovich, Pavel; Isaacs, Talia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study examined contributions of lexical factors to native-speaking raters' assessments of comprehensibility (ease of understanding) of second language (L2) speech. Extemporaneous oral narratives elicited from 40 French speakers of L2 English were transcribed and evaluated for comprehensibility by 10 raters. Subsequently, the samples were…
Descriptors: Profiles, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Evaluators
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Feng, Yanxue; Webb, Stuart – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
This study used a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design at one-week intervals to determine the extent to which written, audio, and audiovisual L2 input contributed to incidental vocabulary learning. Seventy-six university students learning EFL in China were randomly assigned to four groups. Each group was presented with the input from the same…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nguyen, Thi My Hang; Webb, Stuart – Language Teaching Research, 2017
This study investigated Vietnamese EFL learners' knowledge of verb-noun and adjective-noun collocations at the first three 1,000 word frequency levels, and the extent to which five factors (node word frequency, collocation frequency, mutual information score, congruency, and part of speech) predicted receptive knowledge of collocation. Knowledge…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
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Webb, Stuart; Chang, Anna C-S. – Language Teaching Research, 2015
This study investigated (1) the extent of vocabulary learning through reading and listening to 10 graded readers, and (2) the relationship between vocabulary gain and the frequency and distribution of occurrence of 100 target words in the graded readers. The experimental design expanded on earlier studies that have typically examined incidental…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency