Learners' incidental vocabulary acquisition : a case on narrative and expository texts Shokouhi, Hossein and Maniati, Mahmood 2009, Learners' incidental vocabulary acquisition : a case on narrative and expository texts, English language teaching, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 13-23. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads shokouhi-learnersincidental-2009.pdf Published version application/pdf 155.04KB 408 Title Learners' incidental vocabulary acquisition : a case on narrative and expository texts Author(s) Shokouhi, Hossein orcid.org/0000-0003-3266-869X Maniati, Mahmood Journal name English language teaching Volume number 2 Issue number 1 Start page 13 End page 23 Total pages 11 Publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education Place of publication Toronto, ON Publication date 2009 ISSN 1916-4742 1916-4750 Keyword(s) incidental intentional explicit implicit vocabulary acquisition narrative expository Summary This study was intended to determine whether or not the genre of a reading text affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners while reading. To this aim, 40 Iranian EFL students whose vocabulary knowledge was within a limited range (already determined by Nation’s Vocabulary Levels Test) were divided into two groups of 20 each for the reading sections. The Narrative Group comprised the participants who read the narratives, and the Expository Group were those who read the expository texts. Three types of vocabulary tests (i.e., Form recognition, Meaning translation and Multiple-choice items) were administered after the reading sessions to assess the incidental vocabulary gains of the participants. Overall, this study demonstrated the relative superiority of expository texts over narratives in terms of enhancing readers' incidental acquisition of unknown words. It is argued that depending on the genre of a text, readers will invest processing resources with different depths and varying degrees of cognitive elaboration for the task of comprehension. Notes Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner. Language eng Field of Research 139999 Education not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2009, Canadian Center of Science and Education Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30045976 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 26 Jun 2012, 10:33:00 EST Tue, 17 Jul 2012, 10:25:00 EST Tue, 17 Jul 2012, 10:25:43 EST Tue, 17 Jul 2012, 10:27:00 EST Thu, 19 Jul 2012, 11:36:01 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 19:09:47 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:33:42 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:01:48 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 812 Abstract Views, 408 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 26 Jun 2012, 10:33:00 EST