Little research has explored how preschools can support children’s second-language (L2) vocabulary development. This study keenly followed the progress of twemty-six Turkish immigrant children growing up in Norway from preschool (age five) to fifth grade (age ten). Four different measures of preschool talk exposure (amount and diversity of teacher-led group talk and amount and diversity of peer...

Vocabulary knowledge is a core component of second language (L2) proficiency. The critical importance vocabulary learning acknowledged by L2 learners, teachers, and researchers alike. development growing area interest in research our increasingly technologized world where rapid technological advancement widespread access to high-speed internet have started provide unique promising opportunities...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of various online techniques (word reference, media, and vocabulary games) on reading comprehension as well as vocabulary comprehension and production. For this purpose, 60 language learners were selected and divided into three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one of the treatment conditions. In the first session of tre...

This study investigated the effects of captioned texts on second/foreign (L2) listening comprehension and vocabulary gains using a computer multimedia program. Additionally, it explored the caption ordering effect (i.e. captions displayed during the first or second listening), and the interaction of captioning order with the L2 proficiency level of language learners in listening comprehension a...

We examine how a person " s existing Web browsing experience on first language Web pages can be augmented to teach second language vocabulary. We present a prototype, ALOE, which runs inside the Firefox web browser and dynamically augments Web pages by replacing a select set of English words with their French translations. The French translations are embedded in the rich context of a Web pages ...

Provision of multiple-choice (MC) glosses, which combines the advantages of glosses and inferring, has recently gained its share of supporters as a potential technique for enhancing L2 texts and increasing word gain for L2 learners. Upon taking an actual TOEFL, the participants underwent a vocabulary pretest to ensure that the target words were unfamiliar to all of them. Half of the participant...

Abstract Second language (L2) research on input manipulation has focused mainly increasing the salience of target structures, but presentation formats L2 can be another important aspect for manipulation. This study compared horizontal, vertical, and adjacent presenting characters, pinyin, English meaning Chinese vocabulary, by recruiting 69 native speakers to 30 words in these formats. Learning...