Vocabulary learning from watching YouTubevideos and reading blog posts
Arndt, Henriette LU
and Woore, Robert
(2018)
In Language Learning & Technology
22(3).
p.124-142
- Abstract
- This study compared second languagevocabulary acquisition from engagement with two different online media: written blog posts and video blogs. It also explored whether there were differences betweenwhich aspects of vocabulary knowledge(i.e., orthography, semantics, and grammatical function) were best learned from these media. The results showed that incidental vocabulary learning occurred in approximately equal amounts fromreading blog posts and watching video blogs. There were some indications that different types of vocabulary knowledge were gained from the two typesof media. The written blog entries promoted greater gains in orthographic knowledge than the videos. There... (More)
- This study compared second languagevocabulary acquisition from engagement with two different online media: written blog posts and video blogs. It also explored whether there were differences betweenwhich aspects of vocabulary knowledge(i.e., orthography, semantics, and grammatical function) were best learned from these media. The results showed that incidental vocabulary learning occurred in approximately equal amounts fromreading blog posts and watching video blogs. There were some indications that different types of vocabulary knowledge were gained from the two typesof media. The written blog entries promoted greater gains in orthographic knowledge than the videos. There was alsotentative evidence that the videos promoted greater recall of the target words’ grammatical functions and greater recognition and recall of their meanings. (Less)
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- Arndt, Henriette
LU
and Woore, Robert
- publishing date
- 2018
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Vocabulary development, Social networking sites, second language learning, second language acquision, Informal second language learning, Online language learning
- in
- Language Learning & Technology
- volume
- 22
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 124 - 142
- publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press
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- scopus:85055628443
- ISSN
- 1094-3501
- language
- English
- LU publication?
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- 33d9cfcd-41f8-40b5-95c5-0bf626e85217
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