Recent studies have shown that concurrent physical activity enhances learning a completely unfamiliar L2 vocabulary as compared to learning it in a static condition. In this paper we report a study whose aim is twofold: to test for possible positive effects of physical activity when L2 learning has already reached some level of proficiency, and to test whether the assumed better performance whe...

This study demonstrated an e-learning system, MyEVA, based on a mixed-modality vocabulary strategy in assisting learners of English as a second language (L2 learners) to improve their vocabulary. To explore the learning effectiveness of MyEVA, the study compared four vocabulary-learning techniques, MyEVA in preference mode, MyEVA in basic mode, an Internet dictionary, and a traditional paper-ba...

This study aims to contribute current research on bilingual children's vocabulary studies and the home environment. It explored how environments affected L1 L2 acquisition. The children in this small-scale (n=40) were exposed Brunei Malay (L1) alongside English (L2) from a young age, classifying as first-language learners (BFL). examines children’s language development it used knowledge measuri...

The study is aimed at exploring Master’s students’ sense-making of various second language (L2) texts and its correlation with interpretation depth the intercultural competence. significance this research lies in fact that it provides an insight on culture-specific issues challenging for advanced proficient Ukrainian learners English when they make sense L2 vocabulary, interactions, public, mas...

This study examines the efficacy of a multimodal online bilingual dictionary based on cognitive linguistics in order to explore the advantages and limitations of explicit multimodal L2 vocabulary learning. Previous studies have examined the efficacy of the verbal and visual representation of words while reading L2 texts, concluding that it facilitates incidental word retention. This study explo...

In this work, we explore how learners can infer second-language noun meanings in the context of their native language. Motivated by an interest in building interactive tools for language learning, we collect data on three word-guessing tasks, analyze their difficulty, and explore the types of errors that novice learners make. We train a log-linear model for predicting our subjects’ guesses of w...

This study investigates the influence of semantic incongruency on vocabulary acquisition Kurdish learners English and different factors involved in resolving such incongruency. It also examines whether level language proficiency is key facilitating learner understanding this phenomenon. To these ends, a mixed method approach that features quantitative qualitative data collection was adopted, fo...

A controversial issue in bilingual research is whether in the early stages of L2 learning, access to the conceptual system involves mediation of L1 lexical representations [Kroll, J. F., & Stewart, E. (1994). Category interference in translation and picture naming: Evidence for asymmetric connections between bilingual memory representations. Journal of Memory and Language, 33, 149-174] or a dir...

the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...