Bilingual Dictionary Use and Incidental Lexical Acquisition in Korean EFL Reading

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Joon-ki Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제93호, 227~247쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.12.30

영문 초록

This study compared the effectiveness of two approaches for achieving incidental L2 vocabulary learning through reading Thirty Korean university students were randomly assigned to one of two reading conditions in which they read a short story in English The treatment condition allowed the use of dictionaries, so that unfamiliar words could be looked up the control group had no access to dictionaries, and were expected to guess from context the meaning of unknown words The reading task was preceded by a pretest on target lexis items from the story, and followed by a surprise vocabulary posttest The results indicated that a) a significant level of overall vocabulary learning took place during reading, b) no statistically significant difference existed between the dictionary and context-only conditions

키워드

lexical acquisition EFL reading L2 vocabulary learning dictionary use