| Incidental vocabulary acquisition is one of the most important ways to enlarge vocabulary size,and incidental vocabulary acquisition has long been the hotspot in the field of second language acquisition.In recent years,the researches on incidental vocabulary acquisition by different glosses have been on the rise.However,up to now,there is no consistent conclusion on which glossing language and choice is better for incidental vocabulary acquisition.This situation gives a direction for this study.Based on the input hypothesis,output hypothesis,hierarchical model of bilingual memory representation and the involvement load hypothesis,the current study investigated the effects of glossing language and glossing choice on the incidental vocabulary acquisition of junior high school students during reading.The results were hoped to provide an effective reference for expanding learners’ vocabulary size and improving the effect of incidental vocabulary acquisition.Two research questions are as follow:（1）What are the effects of glossing language and glossing choice on the incidental vocabulary acquisition in terms of receptive vocabulary learning in junior middle school English reading?（2）What are the effects of glossing language and glossing choice on the incidental vocabulary acquisition in terms of productive vocabulary learning in junior middle school English reading? In the current study,99 participants were Grade 9 students from two parallel classes in a junior middle school of Taishan,Guangdong.A two-factor mixed design was used in this study.In the experiment,glossing choices were between-group factors,including single choice（SG）and multiple-choice gloss（MCG）.Glossing languages were within-group factors,including Chinese（L1）and English（L2）gloss.For one class,Chinese and English single glosses were applied;for the other class,Chinese and English multiple-choice glosses were applied.After reading the texts with glosses and completing the post-reading exercises,students then were required to finish the receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge tests of ten target words.In order to investigate the incidental acquisition effect of the target words,after completing the reading and post-reading tasks,the subjects received a timely post-test without being informed in advance.One week later,participants received a delayed post-test.The contents of the immediate and delayed post-tests were the same but target words were shown in a different order.When all data collection was completed,all data was analyzed by SPSS 22.0.The results showed that for different types of vocabulary knowledge,glossing language and glossing choice have different effects in the current study.First of all,for the incidental acquisition of receptive vocabulary knowledge,glossing language and glossing choice have significant main effects in the immediate post-test,but no interaction effect.L1 gloss performed better than L2 glosses,and single choice glosses worked better than multiple-choice gloss.Then,in the delayed-post test,only the glossing language had the main effect.For productive vocabulary knowledge,only the glossing language had a significant main effect in the immediate post-test and delayed post-test.The reasons for the differences can be attributed to individual English proficiency,bilingual representation differences.Based on the research results and related discussions,the conclusion part of this study expounded some inspirations of the research on relevant theories,educational practice.Also,the shortcomings of the research and the future research prospects were introduced. |
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