“投入量假设”英语阅读中产出性词汇附带习得研究的开题报告.docxVIP

“投入量假设”英语阅读中产出性词汇附带习得研究的开题报告

Title:

AnInvestigationintoVocabularyAcquisitionthroughIncidentalLearningofProductiveVocabularyinEnglishReadingwithHypothesisTesting

Introduction:

Oneofthemostimportantaspectsoflanguagelearningisvocabularyacquisition.However,notalllearnersarethesameandtheymayapproachlearningvocabularydifferently.Somelearnersmaypreferexplicitinstruction,whileothersmaypreferincidentallearningthroughreading.Inthisstudy,wewillinvestigatehowlearnersacquireproductivevocabularythroughincidentallearninginreading,andtestthehypothesisoftherelationshipbetweentheinputamountandvocabularyacquisition.

Objectives:

Theobjectivesofthisstudyare:

1.ToinvestigatehowlearnersacquireproductivevocabularythroughincidentallearninginEnglishreading;

2.TotestthehypothesisoftherelationshipbetweentheinputamountandvocabularyacquisitionduringEnglishreading;

3.ToexplorepossiblefactorsthatmayaffectproductivevocabularyacquisitioninEnglishreading.

Methodology:

Thestudywilluseamixed-methodsapproach,combiningquantitativeandqualitativedata.50second-yearuniversitystudentsmajoringinEnglishwillberecruitedasparticipants,andtheywillbedividedintotwogroups:theexperimentalgroup(EG)andthecontrolgroup(CG).

BothgroupswillreceivethesameEnglishreadingtext,andtheEGwillreceiveadditionalvocabularyitemswhilereading.ThevocabularyitemswillbeselectedfromtheAcademicWordList(AWL)andtheparticipantswillbeinstructedtowritedownthemeaningsofthenewvocabularyitemstheyencounter.

Intermsofdatacollection,thefollowingmethodswillbeused:

1.Vocabularytests:theparticipantswillbeadministeredtwovocabularytests,onepre-testandonepost-test,tomeasurethevocabularyacquisitionafterreading;

2.Questionnaire:theparticipantswillbeaskedtocompleteaquestionnairetogatherinformationabout