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An investigation of incidental vocabulary acquisition in relation to learner proficiency level and word frequency
Date
2006-06-01
Author
Tekmen, E. Anne Ferrell
Daloğlu, Ayşegül
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This study examined the relationship between learners' incidental vocabulary acquisition and their level of proficiency, and between acquisition and word frequency in a text. Participants were Turkish learners of English at three proficiency levels. One reading text and four vocabulary tests were administered over a two-week period. Analyses of the data revealed that lexical gains from reading were significant for each group (p < .05). The higher proficiency groups were able to acquire more words than lower level groups. Word frequency in the text was also a significant factor in vocabulary acquisition (p < .05), with 29% of the variance in acquisition being accounted for by frequency. However, frequency did not play a greater role in the vocabulary acquisition of lower level learners than in that of higher level learners.
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Linguistics and Language
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38255
Journal
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-9720.2006.tb02263.x
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Department of Foreign Language Education, Article
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E. A. F. Tekmen and A. Daloğlu, “An investigation of incidental vocabulary acquisition in relation to learner proficiency level and word frequency,”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS
, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 220–243, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38255.