Incidental vocabulary acquisition from listening to English teacher education lectures: A case study from Macau higher education.

ABSTRACT: Some proponents of higher education English as a medium of instruction (EMI) have suggested listening to English lectures provides students the opportunity to incidentally acquire unknown words. A case study was designed to examine this assumption. First, the lexical profiles of 27 Introduction to English Language Teaching first-year undergraduate course lectures were computed to determine how many words students need to know for comprehension. Then an incoming year-1 undergraduate student with an English vocabulary size of 7,500 word families and mastery of the most frequent 3,000 word families listened to these lectures across 13.5 weeks with the purpose of measuring incidental acquisition gains of three aspects of word knowledge for ten targeted words. Lastly, the student's perce

SUBMITTER: Reynolds BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9479006 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature