INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF SINGLE WORDS AND COLLOCATIONS THROUGH VIEWING AN ACADEMIC LECTURE

Abstract Academic lectures are potential sources of vocabulary learning for second language learners studying at universities where English is the medium instruction, as well those in Purposes (EAP) programs. Topic-related likely to occur frequently academic texts, and speech consists a reasonable proportion occurring sequences words. Yet no intervention studies have explored single words collocations through viewing video an unmodified lecture. To address this gap, study collected data from 55 EAP China, following pretest-posttest design. The experimental group ( n = 28) watched lecture which 50 target 19 were presented while control 27) received treatment. Results show that led significant gains meaning recall level form recognition level. Frequency occurrence appeared significantly contribute but not collocations. Prior knowledge general make contribution