The current study investigated the effects of L1 and L2 glosses on L2 vocabulary retention in incidental and intentional settings. To this end, 100 intermediate Iranian female learners of English as a foreign language at Soroosh High School were given a pre-test to make sure that they do not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with three different glossing conditions ...

The study investigates the gains m three types of English as a Foreign Language vocabulary knowledge, passive, 'controlled active' and free active, in one year of school instruction It also examines how these aspects of lexical knowledge are related to one another,and what changes occur in these relauonships after one year Gains in vocabulary were measured by comparing two groups of learners wi...

Developing vocabulary is one of the important parts in foreign language learning. In other words, necessary not only for productive skills but also receptive skills. Thus, students have to continue development beyond classroom. Students plan, learn and monitor themselves while they are studying vocabulary. order achieve it, need be autonomous learners. Considering effect learner autonomy on lea...

Gender is a key factor in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), where its impact on language learning strategies (Aslan, 2009; Oxford & Nyikos, 1989; Sumarni Rachmawaty, 2019) and productive vocabulary (Canga Alonso Arribas García, 2014; Fleckenstein, 2018; Jiménez Catalán Moreno Espinosa, 2004) has been investigated. However, to our knowledge, there lack research gender relation ...