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STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 685-707Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0272263121000462
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- KU Leuven's Global Minds Doctoral Scholarships by VLIR-UOS
- Belgian Development Cooperation
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This longitudinal study examines the influence of different reading modes on the incidental learning of collocations, and finds that reading with textual input enhancement leads to better learning outcomes.
This longitudinal study investigates the effect of mode of reading on the incidental learning of collocations and factors that affect learning. One hundred Vietnamese pre-intermediate learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) were assigned to either an experimental group or a control group (no treatment). In 9 weeks, the experimental group read three graded readers containing 32 target collocations in three counterbalanced reading modes: reading-only, reading-while-listening, and reading with textual input enhancement (i.e., underlining). Learning gains were measured by a form recall pretest and delayed posttest. The results showed that reading mode had a significant effect on incidental collocation learning. Reading with textual input enhancement resulted in significantly higher learning gains than the other reading modes. Reading-while-listening was also more beneficial for collocation learning than reading-only. Learners' prior vocabulary knowledge and congruency of collocations were significant predictors of the learning gains.
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