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The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary

Bisson, Marie-Jos�e; van Heuven, Walter J.B.; Conklin, Kathy; Tunney, Richard J.

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Authors

Marie-Jos�e Bisson

KATHY CONKLIN K.CONKLIN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Psycholinguistics

Richard J. Tunney



Abstract

Prior research has reported incidental vocabulary acquisition with complete beginners in a foreign language (FL), within 8 exposures to auditory and written FL word forms presented with a picture depicting their meaning. However, important questions remain about whether acquisition occurs with fewer exposures to FL words in a multimodal situation and whether there is a repeated exposure effect. Here we report a study where the number of exposures to FL words in an incidental learning phase varied between 2, 4, 6, and 8 exposures. Following the incidental learning phase, participants completed an explicit learning task where they learned to recognize written translation equivalents of auditory FL word forms, half of which had occurred in the incidental learning phase. The results showed that participants performed better on the words they had previously been exposed to, and that this incidental learning effect occurred from as little as 2 exposures to the multimodal stimuli. In addition, repeated exposure to the stimuli was found to have a larger impact on learning during the first few exposures and decrease thereafter, suggesting that the effects of repeated exposure on vocabulary acquisition are not necessarily constant.

Citation

Bisson, M., van Heuven, W. J., Conklin, K., & Tunney, R. J. (2014). The role of repeated exposure to multimodal input in incidental acquisition of foreign language vocabulary. Language Learning, 64(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12085

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 15, 2014
Deposit Date Mar 15, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Language Learning
Print ISSN 0023-8333
Electronic ISSN 0023-8333
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 64
Issue 4
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12085
Keywords Repeated Exposures, Frequency Effects, Incidental Learning, Multimodality, Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/738122
Publisher URL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.12085/abstract;jsessionid=F558998D66B0B8F3FCECA6CA85640221.f03t02

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