This study is an attempt to investigate the role of incidental and intentional vocabulary acquisition in addition to the influence of language learning strategy: namely, the use of vocabulary strategy by Iranian EFL learners in learning new vocabularies. Accordingly, this study is two-faceted. First, Part A examines the difference between different modes of presentation, incidental and intentio...

Prior research has reported incidental vocabulary acquisition with complete beginners in a foreign language (FL), within 8 exposures to auditory and written FL word forms presented with a picture depicting their meaning. However, important questions remain about whether acquisition occurs with fewer exposures to FL words in a multimodal situation and whether there is a repeated exposure effect....

Research within the realm of second language acquisition has demonstrated salience reading for learning incidental vocabulary. Although many studies have investigated vocabulary through reading, only a few explored extent to which is dependent on pleasure and frequency extensive reading. In an attempt fill this gap, study reports association between competence free pleasure, 239 Indian ESL lear...

This study used eye tracking to investigate the allocation of attention to multimodal stimuli during an incidental learning situation, as well as its impact on subsequent explicit learning. Participants were exposed to foreign language (FL) auditory words on their own, in conjunction with written native language (NL) translations, or with both written NL translations and pictures. Incidental ac...

Vocabulary acquisition is essential to achieve fluency in the target language; however, it a daunting and unending task for second language learners due large number of words required be learne. This two-group, pre/post/delayed post-test quasi-experimental study aims investigate whether English as Foreign Language (EFL) could learn new incidentally from reading texts their coursebooks there was...

An experiment explored the acquisition of conscious and unconscious knowledge of semantic prosody in a second language under incidental and intentional learning conditions. Semantic prosody is the conotational coloring of the semantics of a word, largely uncaptured by dictionary definitions. Contrary to some claims in the literature, we revealed that both conscious and unconscious knowledge wer...