The Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in English Reading

DOI

10.2991/icelaic-18.2018.96How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English reading; incidental vocabulary acquisition; factors

Abstract

Incidental vocabulary acquisition refers to learning vocabulary without the intention to learn; it is an accidental cognitive activity when the Learners’ attention focuses on the other things. The paper finds that the topics and the new word density of the reading materials can affect the incidental vocabulary acquisition by an empirical study. The purpose of the paper is to rich the theory of second language acquisition by discussing the factors influencing incidental vocabulary acquisition; meanwhile it aims to play a guiding role in the English vocabulary teaching.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Liang Hui
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - The Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in English Reading
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 445
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SN  - 2352-5398
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