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EFFECTS OF NARROW READING AND LISTENING ON L2 VOCABULARY LEARNING

MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2019

Anna C-S. Chang
Anna C-S. Chang*
Affiliation:
Hsing Wu University
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*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Anna C-S. Chang, #101 Section One, Feng-Liao Road, Linkou, New Taipei, Taiwan. E-mail: annachang@livemail.tw
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Abstract

Sixty target words were selected from two sets of graded readers. One set contained three readers with the same title, The Railway Children, and the other set, three books about Sherlock Holmes. Students chose one of the two sets to read and were given a pretest, an immediate posttest, and a five-week delayed posttest on their acquisition of spelling, aural meaning, written meaning, and use. Five fixed factors (time, frequency of word occurrence, glossing, word frequency levels, and four dimensions of vocabulary knowledge) in vocabulary learning and a random variable (the participants) were analyzed with generalized linear mixed models. The results show that the odds of improvements in the knowledge of written and aural meanings were significantly better than those for the knowledge of spelling and use. Significant interaction effects were found between time and other fixed factors, except for glossing. Pedagogical implications of the results are discussed.

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Research Article
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , September 2019 , pp. 769 - 794
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 

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Footnotes

This study was supported by a research grant from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST 104-2410-H-266-004-MY2). I would like to express my thanks to the anonymous SSLA reviewers and Dr. Giles Witton-Davies of National Taiwan University for spending their valuable time reading the manuscript and offering helpful comments.

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