Researching Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language by Feng Teng, Mark; Reynolds, Barry Lee;

Short description:

Incidental language acquisition is the language that is learned informally, outside the constraints of the typical classroom, and vocabulary is one of the key elements in language learning and knowledge. This unique text is the first overview and hands-on methodological guide for researching second language incidental vocabulary acquisition.

Long description:

Incidental language acquisition is the language that is learned informally, outside the constraints of the typical classroom, and vocabulary is one of the key elements in language learning and knowledge. This unique text is the first comprehensive overview and hands-on methodological guide for researching second language (L2) incidental vocabulary acquisition.

Expert contributors from around the world synthesize the state of the art by defining key concepts and laying out the major theoretical perspectives, research methodologies, empirical findings, and pedagogical considerations involved in incidental L2 vocabulary learning research. By connecting research techniques to the theory that underpins them, detailing practical steps for designing and conducting rigorous new studies, and highlighting areas that deserve additional research attention, they further set the agenda for future work in this field and put readers in a strong position to understand and carry out this research independently.

This book will be an invaluable resource to advanced students and researchers of second language acquisition, vocabulary studies, applied linguistics, education, and related areas.

Table of Contents:

Editors
List of contributors

Preface
Mark Feng Teng

Foreword
Batia Laufer

1. Introduction to Researching Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language

Mark Feng Teng

Part I: Pedagogy

2. Incidental vocabulary learning from extensive reading

Paul Nation and Rob Waring

3. Incidental vocabulary learning from watching audio-visual input

Maribel Montero Perez, Tetyana Sydorenko, and Lizz Huntley

Part II: Methodology

4. Methodological features of studies of incidental vocabulary learning

Stuart Webb

5. Cognitive/behavioral methods for investigating incidental vocabulary acquisition

Kathy Conklin, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, and Manuel F. Pulido

6. Incidental learning of multi-word expressions: methodological considerations and future directions

Suhad Sonbul and Anna Siyanova-Chanturia 

7. Data science and incidental vocabulary learning

Clarence Green

Part III: Individual differences

8. Understanding teachers’ and learners’ perceptions of incidental vocabulary learning: another piece of the puzzle

Averil Coxhead

9. Factors affecting incidental vocabulary learning

Mark Feng Teng and Takumi Uchihara

10. Motivation, task-induced involvement load and incidental vocabulary learning

Christine Muir and Paweł Szudarski

Part IV: Future directions

11. Meta-analytic studies of second language incidental vocabulary learning

Akifumi Yanagisawa

12. Bridging intentional and incidental vocabulary learning

Frank Boers

13. Concluding remarks on researching incidental vocabulary learning in a second language

Mark Feng Teng

Index