The present study serves to demonstrate that learning new L2 vocabulary items in association with unique cues can have a rather dramatic effect on the way in which the newly learned items are processed. In the present study, participants learned new L2 vocabulary items in association with either familiar line drawings or uniquely colored pictures. It was found that new L2 words learned in assoc...

This study investigated semantic transfer in second language (L2) learning and provided a replication of the author’s study (Jiang, 2002) in a different English as a Second Language (ESL) population. Korean ESL speakers were asked to perform a semantic judgment task in which they decided whether or not 2 English words were related in meaning. Two types of related word pairs served as critical s...

this study aimed at investigating the effect of graphic organizer strategy on improving iranian efl learners’ vocabulary learning. fifty students participated in this study which lasted for one academic semester. the students were divided into two groups: one experimental group in which students were taught new vocabulary items through graphic organizers in form of clusters and pictures, and on...

This article describes two studies that examined the effects of pictorial and written annotations on second language (L2) vocabulary learning from a multimedia environment. In both studies, students were randomly assigned to one of four aural multimedia groups: a control group that received no annotations, and three treatment groups that provided written, pictorial, or both written and pictoria...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of subtitles in the context of authentic material on second language comprehension and potentially, second language acquisition for Norwegian learners of English. Participants in the study were 49 17-year-old students and 65 16-year-old students, who were all native speakers of Norwegian learning English as an L2 in high school. Both age groups were d...

Abstract In recent years, the number of studies investigating effectiveness using digital games for incidental second language (L2) vocabulary learning has been rapidly increasing; however, there is still a lack research identifying factors that affect L2 learning. Hence, current study examined vocabulary-related (word level, exposure frequency, salience) and learner-related (language proficien...

this study has examined the effect of semantic mapping on learning vocabulary across genders. the researchers selected 120 intermediate students after the administration of a standard proficiency test. a vocabulary test was also used to measure the students’ vocabulary knowledge. the experimental group received semantic mapping in the pre-reading stage, butthe control group did not receive this...

the current study examined the correlation among iranian efl learners’ emotional intelligence (ei), critical thinking (ct) ability, and l2 vocabulary knowledge (vk). to this end, surveys were administered to 75 iranian advanced efl participants. analyses of the data revealed a mutual relationship between the iranian efl learners’ ei and their l2 vk. similarly, a positive correlation was found b...

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...

this study investigates the effect of different types of subtitle on incidental vocabulary learning among iranian efl learners. to this end, 60 high school students in behbahan were selected after taking a proficiency test. the test was administered to ensure participants' homogeneity. participants were randomly assigned to three experimental groups, namely, bimodal group (a), standard gro...