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To determine whether watching full-length television episodes promotes incidental second language vocabulary acquisition and to examine the influence of word frequency and range on learning outcomes.

June 25, 2019ITL Review of Applied Linguistics

Incidental vocabulary learning through viewing television

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MRMichael RodgersUniversity of Nottingham SWStuart WebbWestern University

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Pre-post study demonstrates significant incidental vocabulary gains in foreign language learners, suggesting full-length television viewing fosters second language acquisition.

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To determine whether watching full-length television episodes promotes incidental second language vocabulary acquisition and to examine the influence of word frequency and range on learning outcomes.
Assessed 187 Japanese university students who watched ten 42-minute episodes (over seven hours total) of an American television drama.
Administered pre- and post-tests of differing sensitivities to measure receptive knowledge of the form-meaning connection across 60 target word-families.
Television viewing led to statistically significant gains in receptive vocabulary knowledge from pre- to post-intervention testing.
Vocabulary acquisition showed a strong positive relationship with the frequency of word occurrences across the episodes.

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Rodgers et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a006a01da5c1eb07f2da82e https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.18034.rod

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Pre-post study demonstrates significant incidental vocabulary gains in foreign language learners, suggesting full-length television viewing fosters second language acquisition.

Incidental vocabulary learning through viewing television

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Incidental vocabulary learning through viewing television

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