The purpose of the present study was to identify any significant relationship between critical thinking ability, L2 vocabulary knowledge, and L2 vocabulary learning strategies of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, the productive vocabulary levels test was administered to measure the learner’s L2 vocabulary knowledge and observe homogeneity in terms of vocabulary knowledge. At the second stage, ...

Despite a growing number of studies, the neurophysiology of adult vocabulary acquisition is still poorly understood. One reason is that paradigms that can easily be combined with neuroscientfic methods are rare. Here, we tested the efficiency of two paradigms for vocabulary (re-) acquisition, and compared the learning of novel words for actions and objects. Cortical networks involved in adult n...

Learning a foreign language is often a fun but difficult task. A variety of commercial and non-commercial products focused on multimedia content claim to being the perfect vocabulary teacher. However, these products take neither care about the individual differences nor the emotional states that occur in the learning process. In fact, each individual learns in a different way and expresses a di...

Working memory (WM) may be an essential component of incidental vocabulary learning and retention from captioned videos. However, how WM affects young learners’ under different types captions remains unclear. The present study employs a between-subject research design. main purpose is to examine two WM— phonological short-term complex WM—impact outcomes incidentally learned retained three capti...

According to previous studies, visual data help to enhance vocabulary learning in a foreign language (e.g. Yeh and Wang 2003). However, it is not easy to create visual data for all lexical items. Particularly, we encounter problems when dealing with abstract words. In this paper, we report on two experiments that tested the learning effects of four types of materials for mobile devices that wer...