In Chun and Plass's CyberBuch studies, the text + picture annotation group significantly outperformed text-definition and text + video groups on a vocabulary test¶
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q2 i? German learners consulting text + picture annotations scored significantly higher on a vocabulary test than groups consulting text definitions or text + video, with no significant difference between the latter two. → Yun 2008
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Yun 2008¶
Yun, J. H. (2008). The Effects of Hypertext Glosses on L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Meta-Analysis. Doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas. https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu
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The dissertation reports, citing Chun and Plass (1996), a within-subject/repeated-measures study of 160 second-year German students at three US universities using CyberBuch, where "text + picture annotations, significantly outperformed" the other annotation types. No effect size is printed.
"the group, which consulted the combination of text + picture annotations, significantly outperformed two other groups who consulted text definition and text + video on a vocabulary test"
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Related Claims¶
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In Chun and Plass's CyberBuch studies, the text + picture annotation group significantly outperformed text-definition and text + video groups on a vocabulary test |
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In Chun and Plass's CyberBuch studies, the text + picture annotation group significantly outperformed text-definition and text + video groups on a vocabulary test |
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