چکیده:
Abstract Acquiring vocabulary, as a significant and challenging part of language learning process, has always been consistent with reading. In this study, the researchers examined the effect of enhanced extensive reading on EFL learners’ incidental acquisition of English vocabulary, with specific focus on phrasal verbs. Twenty five homogenized participants were selected and divided into two groups of A (experimental group) and B (control group), with 12 and 13 students in each group respectively (N=25). The experimental group received enhanced extensive reading instruction, while the control group received unenhanced extensive reading instruction. After administering a pre-test and a post-test, collecting data and statistical analysis, the results revealed that the learners who received enhanced extensive reading outperformed the ones who received unenhanced extensive reading instruction.
خلاصه ماشینی:
In this study, the researchers examined the effect of enhanced extensive reading on EFL learners’ incidental acquisition of English vocabulary, with specific focus on phrasal verbs.
Keywords: enhanced extensive reading, incidental acquisition, phrasal verbs, unenhanced extensive reading Introduction Within language study and teaching context, vocabulary has always been counted as an important linguistic feature to instruct.
In the present study, since the major concern was providing an appropriate input to expand students’ phrasal verb knowledge, the researchers have equipped the learners with enhanced and unenhanced extensive readings for the purpose of answering the following research questions and testing the related null hypotheses: 1.
Ho2: Enhanced and unenhanced extensive readings do not have a significant differential effect on EFL learners’ incidental acquisition of English phrasal verbs?
Ho2: Enhanced and unenhanced extensive readings do not have a significant differential effect on EFL learners’ incidental acquisition of English phrasal verbs?
Studies regarding the effect of input received by extensive reading revealed that the learners’ incidental learning through this approach mostly concerns vocabulary development (Day et al.
This finding is consistent with the studies of Cho & Krashen (1994) and Pigada & Schmitt studies (2006) who investigated the benefits of extensive reading for incidental acquisition of vocabulary.
However, this study increases our knowledge regarding these effects by providing evidence suggesting that enhanced extensive reading instruction might lead to greater achievements on incidental acquisition of English phrasal verbs.
There are, however, numerous studies investigating the benefits of extensive reading on incidental acquisition of vocabulary (Cho and Krashen, 1994; Pigada and Schmitt, 2006; Nishino, 2007).