The effects of reading bilingual books on vocabulary learning

dc.contributor.authorZhang, Zhiying
dc.contributor.authorWebb, Stuart
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-22T02:29:32Z
dc.date.available2020-05-22T02:29:32Z
dc.date.issued2019-04
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated the effects of reading bilingual books on vocabulary learning. Eighty-two Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners read different versions of the same text: English-only text, English text with target words glossed, English text followed by the Chinese text, and Chinese text followed by the English text. A pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest were used to measure incidental vocabulary learning. The findings showed that (a) all four groups made significant gains in lexical knowledge, (b) those who read glossed text and bilingual text had significantly durable knowledge gain, (c) the participants who read glossed text or read the English version of the text before the Chinese version had significantly higher scores text in the immediate posttest than the participants who read the English-only text, and (d) the participants who read bilingual texts had significantly higher scores on the delayed posttest than those who read the English-only text.
dc.identifier.doi10125/66752
dc.identifier.issn1539-0578
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/66752
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.publisherCenter for Language & Technology
dc.subjectsecond language reading
dc.subjectbilingual reading
dc.subjectvocabulary learning
dc.subjectglossing
dc.subjecterrorless learning
dc.subjectnoticing hypothesis
dc.subjectdesirable difficulties framework
dc.titleThe effects of reading bilingual books on vocabulary learning
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
local.rfl.topicMethods and Materials
prism.endingpage139
prism.number1
prism.startingpage108
prism.volume31

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