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Direct linkUchihara, Takumi; Webb, Stuart; Saito, Kazuya; Trofimovich, Pavel – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study examined how mode of input affects the learning of pronunciation and form-meaning connection of second language (L2) words. Seventy-five Japanese learners of English were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions (reading while listening, reading only, listening only), studied 40 low-frequency words while viewing their corresponding…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Webb, Stuart – Language Teaching, 2016
There has been a great deal of research on first language (L1) and second language (L2) learning through meaning-focused input since Nagy, Herman & Anderson's (1985) seminal study of incidental vocabulary learning through reading. Two strands of research within this area are incidental vocabulary learning through listening and guessing from…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Incidental Learning
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
Boers, Frank; Lindstromberg, Seth; Webb, Stuart – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2014
Previous research has furnished evidence that alliterative expressions (e.g. "a slippery slope") are comparatively memorable for second language learners, at least when these expressions are attended to as decontextualized items (Lindstromberg and Boers, 2008a; Boers et al., 2012). The present study investigates whether alliteration…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Phrase Structure, Literary Devices
Webb, Stuart; Newton, Jonathan; Chang, Anna – Language Learning, 2013
This study investigated the effects of repetition on the learning of collocation. Taiwanese university students learning English as a foreign language simultaneously read and listened to one of four versions of a modified graded reader that included different numbers of encounters (1, 5, 10, and 15 encounters) with a set of 18 target collocations.…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Webb, Stuart – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
This study investigates the effects of receptive and productive vocabulary learning on word knowledge. Japanese students studying English as a foreign language learned target words in three glossed sentences and in a sentence production task in two experiments. Five aspects of vocabulary knowledge--orthography, syntax, association, grammatical…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
