ESL students using a spaced L2 vocabulary acquisition strategy with monthly incidental listening outperformed comparison students on the End-of-Experiment test¶
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q2 i? Second-year ESL students who repeated target vocabulary once a month via audio lessons scored higher on the End-of-Experiment test than comparison students, and the article reports the difference as statistically significant by one-way ANOVA. → Tetiana Zubenko 2022
Evidence¶
Tetiana Zubenko 2022¶
Tetiana Zubenko, Anastasiia Gavrylenko, Tetyana Zhyvotovska, Nadiia Vasylieva. (2022). Spaced vocabulary acquisition while incidental listening by ESL university students. Advanced Education, 20. https://doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.250501
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Quasi-experiment with 51 Ukrainian second-year ESL students in one experimental (SVAS) and two comparison groups; the spaced-repetition group's End-of-Experiment mean of 84.1 exceeded the comparison group's 80.6, with a one-way ANOVA reported as statistically significant. No effect size is printed.
"Students in the SVAS group had a mean score of 84,1 versus 80,6 for the Comparison group. Results from a one-way ANOVA indicate that the test performance difference was statistically significant"
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Spaced Practice Improves Retention — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
- Audio lessons training vocabulary from L1 to L2 yield better L1-to-L2 translation than traditional L2-to-L1 training — related
- Listening to vocabulary lessons while physically active improves End-of-Unit exam performance over traditional intentional learning alone — related
- The SVAS group outperformed the comparison group across oral comprehension and vocabulary rubrics, with the largest gaps in answering questions and translating from Ukrainian — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Reading and listening yield similar proportions of incidental vocabulary learning, with reading ahead only on some immediate posttests — related
- L2 learners pick up vocabulary incidentally from meaning-focused input, with reading the most-studied mode and listening yielding similar proportions of words learned — related
- Incidental vocabulary acquisition through comprehensible input is more powerful than intentional vocabulary learning — related
- Intentional vocabulary learning yields higher, faster gains and better retention than incidental learning through reading — related
- Incidental vocabulary exposure produces reliable learning, but learners pick up only a small share of the unknown words they meet — related
- Pairing Contextual Encounters With Explicit Instruction Produces Stronger Vocabulary Outcomes Than Either Alone — related
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ESL students using a spaced L2 vocabulary acquisition strategy with monthly incidental listening outperformed comparison students on the End-of-Experiment test |
description |
ESL students using a spaced L2 vocabulary acquisition strategy with monthly incidental listening outperformed comparison students on the End-of-Experiment test |
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2022 |
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2026-10-20 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-09-27 |
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