In Yoshii's study, text + picture glosses beat text-only glosses only on a definition-supply test, with no L1 versus L2 gloss difference¶
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q2 i? Among 195 EFL university students, no significant difference emerged between L1 and L2 gloss groups, while the text + picture advantage over text-only appeared only on the definition-supply test. → Yun 2008
Evidence¶
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 Yoshii (2006), a mixed-design repeated-measure study of 195 university EFL students in four gloss groups tested immediately and after a two-week delay, where the picture advantage was "found only on a definition-supply test". No effect size printed.
"there was no significant difference between L1 and L2 gloss groups; however, a significant difference between a text + picture group and a text-only group was found only on a definition-supply test."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Earlier meta-analyses, as reported second-hand, find that glosses improve L2 vocabulary learning and that text-and-picture glosses outperform single-mode glosses — a broader claim this one bears on
- Multimedia glosses improve EFL students' immediate vocabulary acquisition relative to reading the same texts without glosses — related
- Multimedia glosses improve EFL students' vocabulary retention two weeks after treatment relative to no glosses — related
- In Lomicka's think-aloud study, no statistical differences emerged among no-gloss, single-gloss, and multiple-gloss groups despite apparent vocabulary gains from multiple annotations — related
- In Chun and Plass's CyberBuch studies, the text + picture annotation group significantly outperformed text-definition and text + video groups on a vocabulary test — related
- A multiple-choice gloss format (L1 + L2) produced significantly higher vocabulary posttest scores than a single-gloss format in Nagata's Japanese study — related
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In Yoshii's study, text + picture glosses beat text-only glosses only on a definition-supply test, with no L1 versus L2 gloss difference |
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In Yoshii's study, text + picture glosses beat text-only glosses only on a definition-supply test, with no L1 versus L2 gloss difference |
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