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COMBINING EXPLICIT AND SENSITIVE INDICES FOR MEASURING L2 VOCABULARY LEARNING THROUGH CONTEXTUALIZED INPUT AND WORD-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION
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This study combines explicit (pen-and-paper) and sensitive (time-pressured) measures to gauge the impact of three instructional interventions (contextualized input with meaning-focused activities, contextualized input with word-focused activities, and decontextualized input with word-focused exercises) on the learning of 20 L2 French target verbs. Participants (N = 313, L1 = Dutch) completed a combination of explicit (form recognition, meaning recall, grammatical preference) and time-pressured sensitive tests (lexical decision, semantic relatedness, grammaticality judgment) as immediate and delayed posttests. Explicit posttests show the beneficial effects of word-focused instruction, and underline the efficiency of context for meaning-related knowledge. Sensitive posttests generally confirm the explicit results, but reveal differences between both word-focused conditions related to lexical processing and strength of knowledge. This study suggests that combining explicit and sensitive measures can provide a more complete picture about the effects of L2 vocabulary instruction and shows that contextualized and decontextualized word-focused instruction benefit vocabulary learning in a complementary way.
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“Comparative studies also show that while explicit instruction groups often perform better on immediate tests, their gains tend to diminish over time, whereas contextualized or implicit groups show continued improvement in delayed assessments (e.g., Hwang, 2024;Vandenberghe et al., 2021).”
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“However, the initial advantages of explicitly acquired grammatical knowledge decreased in the delayed post-test, while the performance of the contextualized groups demonstrated improvement over time.”
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“ILH is rooted in Craik and Lockhart’s (1972) Depth of Processing Hypothesis (cited in, e.g., Schmitt, 2008) that rests on the idea that the more attention is allocated to processing new information, the better the opportunities for learning will be.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vandenberghe, B., Perez, M. M., Reynvoet, B., & Desmet, P.
- Venue
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2021-01-19
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1009-1039
- ISSN
- 0272-2631
- 1470-1545
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 9
- Language
- en
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