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Incidental Grammar Acquisition through Meaning-Focused Reading: Structure Frequency and Reading Comprehension
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Chi Duc Nguyen – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
Research shows that meaning-focused reading offers opportunities for incidental grammar acquisition. However, the number of such studies remains limited and none have examined the role of both in-text encounters with grammar structures and reading comprehension in this learning. The present study filled these gaps. Employing a between-group,…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Grammar, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
A Test of Retrieved Context Theory: Dynamics of Recall after Incidental Encoding
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Mundorf, Abigail M. D.; Lazarus, Linh T. T.; Uitvlugt, Mitchell G.; Healey, M. Karl – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
The temporal contiguity effect (TCE) is the tendency for the recall of one event to cue recall of other events originally experienced nearby in time. Retrieved context theory proposes that the TCE results from fundamental properties of episodic memory: binding of events to a drifting context representation during encoding and the reinstatement of…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Correlation, Recall (Psychology), Cues
Adaptive Memory: Is the Animacy Effect on Memory Due to Richness of Encoding?
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Meinhardt, Martin J.; Bell, Raoul; Buchner, Axel; Röer, Jan P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
A large body of evidence shows an animacy effect on memory in that animate entities are better remembered than inanimate ones. Yet, the reason for this mnemonic prioritization remains unclear. In the survival processing literature, the assumption that richness of encoding is responsible for adaptive memory benefits has received substantial…
Descriptors: Memory, Prediction, Language Processing, Associative Learning
Motivation as Quality: Regulatory Fit Effects on Incidental Vocabulary Learning
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Papi, Mostafa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The study examined the predictions of regulatory fit theory (Higgins, 2000) in relation to task-based incidental vocabulary learning. A total of 189 English as a second language learners completed a vocabulary pretest, a regulatory focus questionnaire, an integrated reading/writing task, and finally an unannounced vocabulary posttest. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Incidental Learning
The Influence of Two Cognitive-Linguistic Variables on Incidental Word Learning in 5-Year-Olds
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Abel, Alyson D.; Schuele, C. Melanie – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
The relation between incidental word learning and two cognitive-linguistic variables--phonological memory and phonological awareness--is not fully understood. Thirty-five typically developing, 5-year-old, preschool children participated in a study examining the association between phonological memory, phonological awareness, and incidental word…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Phonological Awareness, Prediction, Preschool Children
Incidental Vocabulary Learning in Classroom Communication Tasks
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Newton, Jonathan – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This study investigated the ways in which two groups of four adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) responded to unfamiliar words they encountered in four communication tasks and the effect that different levels of engagement with these words (including negotiation of form and meaning) had on subsequent recall of word meaning. Of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Semantics, Classroom Communication, Vocabulary Development