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INPUT, INTAKE, AND RETENTION

Effects of Increased Processing on Incidental Learning of Foreign Language Vocabulary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1997

Yuichi Watanabe
Yuichi Watanabe
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii
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Abstract

This study investigated the effects of text modification and task on incidental learning of foreign language vocabulary by reading. The focus of the study was on how different cue types (appositives and single and multiple-choice marginal glosses) and a task (translation) would affect processing of input, initial learning, and retention of the meaning of target words in a text. Two hundred thirty-one students in Japanese universities were randomly assigned to 10 condition groups. After a pretest, a reading task, and a cloze test, they were given a surprise vocabulary test. A week later, two unexpected delayed posttests were also given. The results indicated that (a) both single and multiple-choice marginal gloss conditions performed significantly better than the no cue and the appositive conditions, (b) no statistically significant difference existed between the single and the multiple-choice gloss conditions nor between the appositive and the no cue conditions, and (c) the translation task had no effect.

Type
Research Article
Information
Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 287 - 307
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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