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Direct linkDongho Kang – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2025
While the benefits of form-focused instruction (FFI) for grammar and general vocabulary are well-documented, research on its impact on L2 academic vocabulary acquisition remains limited. This study examines the effects of focus-on-form (FonF) and focus-on-forms (FonFs) activities on learning both general and academic vocabulary in Korean EFL…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Monster, Iris; Tellings, Agnes; Burk, William J.; Keuning, Jos; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language Testing, 2021
Word knowledge acquisition is an incremental process that relies on exposure. As a result, word knowledge can broadly range from recognizing the word's lexical status, to knowing its meaning in context, and to knowing its meaning independent of context. The present study aimed to model incremental word knowledge in 1454 upper primary school…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Task Analysis
Elgort, Irina; Beliaeva, Natalia; Boers, Frank – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Access to definitions facilitates the learning of word meanings when novel words are encountered in reading. However, the memorial costs and benefits of inferring word meanings from context, compared to seeing definitions of unfamiliar words before reading, are not yet well understood. We conducted two experiments with adult L1 (English) and L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Inferences, Recall (Psychology)
Chen, Yuchun; Lin, Wen-Jing – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2022
Background: Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) demonstrate deficits in vocabulary development and novel word learning processes, which have been proposed to stem from their speech perception deficits. Aims: This study had two aims. The first was to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention incorporating a computer-based phonetic…
Descriptors: Intervention, Phonetics, Vocabulary Development, Language Impairments
Download full textKim, Miso – English Teaching, 2020
The purpose of this study was to analyze six English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' trajectories of discriminating near-synonyms in a data-driven learning task. Since the learners find it considerably difficult to learn subtle meaning differences of near-synonyms, corpus-based data-driven learning may provide an opportunity for them to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Task Analysis
Chan, Alice Y. W. – Applied Linguistics, 2012
This article reports on the results of a study which investigated advanced Cantonese English as a Second Language (ESL) learners' use of a monolingual dictionary for determining the meanings of familiar English words used in less familiar contexts. Thirty-two university English majors in Hong Kong participated in a dictionary consultation task,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Grammar, Second Languages, Monolingualism
