The importance of vocabulary is undeniable. EFL learners need sufficient lexicon in order to bea competitive speaker. Lots of strategies have been proposed. The concept of involvement loadwas first introduced by Hulstijn and Laufer (2001). They believed that deeper explanation oflexical information will result in better retention of them. The present study aimed at finding the...

As mobile learning simultaneously employs both handheld computers and mobile telephones and other  devices  that  draw  on  the  same  set  of  functionalities,  it  throws  open  the  door  for  swift connection between learners  and teachers. This  study examined and articulated the impact of  the application of mobile devices for teaching English vocabulary items to 123 Iranian semi-illitera...

We investigated the impact of emotions on learning vocabulary in an unfamiliar language to better understand affective influences in foreign language acquisition. Seventy native English speakers learned new vocabulary in either a negative or a neutral emotional state. Participants also completed two sets of working memory tasks to examine the potential mediating role of working memory. Results ...

Vocabulary learning is an on-going and life-long process, which is greatly influenced by individual differences. As one of the most outstanding individual differences, learning style largely determines learners’ selection of learning strategies and thereby has a great effect on learning outcomes. Matching learning strategies with learning styles has a great potential in enhancing learning. Alth...

Using behavioral, structural, and functional imaging techniques, we demonstrate contrasting effects of vocabulary knowledge on temporal and parietal brain structure in 47 healthy volunteers who ranged in age from 7 to 73 years. In the left posterior supramarginal gyrus, vocabulary knowledge was positively correlated with gray matter density in teenagers but not adults. This region was not activ...

Vocabulary is one of the essential components of language and learning phrasal verbs as part of vocabulary is quite challenging for foreign language learners. The present study aimed at investigating the effects of visual and auditory input enhancement on learning non-congruent phrasal verbs. The participants of the study were 90 intermediate English language learners who were divided into two ...