During my first semester of teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) I had five hundred students. I taught ten sections of Advanced English at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing, China. Each section had fifty students, whom I met with for one and a half hours once a week. The main goal of the course was to help undergraduates with advanced English proficiency pass the Colle...

Incidental vocabulary acquisition (IVA) plays a vital part in the field of L2 acquisition. It is critical for scholars to know comprehensively about research status and hotspots IVA future. This paper applies CiteSpace software visually analyze 616 articles from CNKI. turns out that: (1) There lack cooperation author author, institution institution. Meanwhile, between authors better than that i...

Recent years have witnessed a phenomenon that major English teachers in China adopted the traditional teaching pattern, mechanically linking pronunciations directly with meaning of Chinese, which gradually dampens learners’ enthusiasm. The chief purpose this paper was to design one vocabulary lesson based on incidental acquisition. More specifically, questions raised are, hand, whether imprints...

Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) is characterized by explicit amnesia, but relatively spared implicit memory. The aim of this study was to assess to what extent KS patients can acquire spatial information while performing a spatial navigation task. Furthermore, we examined whether residual spatial acquisition in KS was based on automatic or effortful coding processes. Therefore, 20 KS patients and 20 ...

  Background:To determine the prevalence of incidental Kienböck disease.   Methods: A retrospective analysis of 150,912 radiological reports or images obtained over a five year period was performed of 76,174 patients who underwent a radiograph or computed tomography scan which included the wrist, in Edinburgh and Lothian, UK. Results: There were 5 cases of incidental Kienböck disease and 13 cas...

Objectives: First, we sought to assess the frequency of incidental extra-cardiac findings (IEF) found in a consecutive series of clinical Cardiac MR scans. Second, we compared the 3 clinically used HASTE acquisition protocols in this context. Third, we determined the impact of the three different HASTE protocols on acquisition time and image quality. Methods: Three consecutive groups of 238 pat...

The conviction that L1 and L2/FL learners can acquire unfamiliar vocabulary items in the course of reading, that is, that so-called incidental vocabulary acquisition is a by-product of the reading process, has been held by numerous researchers involved in the study of the relationship between reading and vocabulary (Paribakht & Wesche, 1997). This study investigated whether doing two types of t...