To What Extent are Intentional and Incidental Approaches Effective Ways of Learning Vocabulary?

Vocabulary learning and teaching usually consists of two components, namely, intentional vocabulary acquisition and incidental vocabulary acquisition. Indeed,intentional learning and incidental learning have their own characteristics and advantages, and thus they may play unequal roles in learners' vocabulary acquisition. This essay will compare intentional and incidental vocabulary acquisition approaches as well as explore to what extent these two approaches are effective.

Review of Effects of Glosses on Incidental Vocabulary Learning and Reading Comprehension

词汇学习是语言学习的基础。Hunt and Beglar(1998)将能促进词汇学习的方法分为三种:附带学习、直接学习和独立策略学习。三种方法中,词汇附带学习被认为是二语词汇习得的一个基本的部分。许多研究证明了注释对词汇附带学习和阅读理解的有效性。本文总结并分析了近年来有关注释对词汇附带习得和阅读理解的研究成果,并指出了其中的不足,提出了未来研究的方向。

L2 Vocabulary Acquisition Through Reading——Incidental Learning and Intentional Learning

二语词汇习得过程中主要涉及到两种不同的方法:直接学习和间接学习。本文通过调查中国非英语专业学习者在阅读语境中词汇习得现象,发现在间接学习的基础上增加直接学习对学习者不同知识层面(从认知到运用)的词汇习得能力的提高和词汇记忆有很大帮助。英语学习者的水平在产出性词汇附带习的得中起到很大作用。

A STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF ANNOTATION ON INCIDENTAL VOCABULARY LEARNING ATTACHED TO LISTENING TASKS

本研究考察注释方式对听力附带词汇习得的效果,设置两个实验组,单项定义注释和多项选择注释组。同时,考察语言水平和理解能力对词汇习得的影响。研究结果表明,语言水平和听力理解只影响词汇知识测验的结果;而注释的方式对词汇知识测验及词汇再认测验均产生影响,且影响最显著。