The present study investigated the relative contributions of experiential and ability factors to second language (L2) passage comprehension and L2 vocabulary retention. Participants included a cross section of 99 adult learners of Spanish as a foreign language enrolled in beginning through advanced level university Spanish courses. Participants completed a standardized reading proficiency test ...

The current study explored whether new words in a foreign language are learned better from pictures than from native language translations. In both between-subjects and within-subject designs, Swahili words were not learned better from pictures than from English translations (Experiments 1-3). Judgments of learning revealed that participants exhibited greater overconfidence in their ability to ...

The principal objective of this study is to describe and evaluate a holistic training model for language teacher education in an e-learning context, specifically in a cyber face-to-face language learning context. This study first proposes an e-training model called the Practice, Reflective and Collaborative (PRC) model, and discusses the rationale underpinning each key component of the model. T...

To investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. Four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

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...

Four experiments examined the decontextualization of memories, the stage of learning in which memories can be recalled in the absence of episodic memory cues. Face-name pairs were studied with video-recorded environmental contexts in the background, and after 5 practice trials, recall of names associated with faces was tested in the absence of the original video context cues. In Experiments 1, ...

This study aims to analyze the epistemology of "Al-Quran and Banyumasan Javanese Translation" (hereinafter abbreviated as QTJB) compiled by 10 translators with different scientific backgrounds. research is qualitative which to: 1) determine background compilation a description social space when translation compiled; 2) knowing source method translation; 3) contribution Al-Quran in Banyumas lang...

to investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of meaning-focused versus form-focused input-oriented and output-oriented task-based instruction on elementary level Iranian EFL Learners’ vocabulary comprehension and recall. For this purpose, a sample of 120 male students from a private school in Tehran was selected through convenience sampling and based on availability. The participants were...