1. THE INVOLVEMENT LOAD HYPOTHESIS: ITS EFFECT ON VOCABULARY LEARNING IN PRIMARY EDUCATION.
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ALCARAZ MÁRMOL, GEMA and SÁNCHEZ-LAFUENTE, ÁNGELA ALMELA
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ENGLISH as a foreign language , *VOCABULARY education , *LANGUAGE acquisition , *READING comprehension , *ELEMENTARY education ,WRITING ability testing - Abstract
The present study explores the effect of four types of tasks on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vocabulary acquisition. Four groups of students in their fifth year of Primary Education worked with a list of English words by means of a different task: reading comprehension with marginal glosses; reading comprehension and gap-filling; writing with marginal glosses; writing and dictionary use. Each task is characterised by a different involvement load. After each group worked with the words in a different way, all students took a receptive and a productive vocabulary test in order to know the degree of acquisition of the target words. The group doing the task with the highest degree of involvement load is expected to obtain the best results in the vocabulary tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013