声明
ACKNOELEDGEMENTS
ABSTRACT
摘要
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Aims of the study
1.3 Organization of the study
Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 The nature of L2 vocabulary acquisition
2.2 The input-output hypothesis and L2 vocabulary acquisition
2.3 The involvement load hypothesis and L2 vocabulary acquisition
2.4 Empirical studies on task effects on L2 vocabulary acquisition
2.4.1 Earlier studies on task effects on L2 vocabulary acquisition
2.4.2 Hulstijn and Laufer’s(2001) study as a seminal study of L2 vocabulary acquisition
2.4.3 Improved designs to investigate task effects on L2 vocabulary acquisition
2.5 Limitations in the previous studies on task effects on L2 vocabulary acquisition
Chapter Three METHOD
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Experimental design
3.3 Subjects
3.4 Target words
3.5 Reading-related L2 vocabulary acquisition tasks
3.6 Testing L2 vocabulary acquisition
3.7 Implementation of test of L2 vocabulary size,reading-related L2 vocabulary acquisition tasks and tests of L2 vocabulary acquisition
3.8 Scoring for the tests of L2 vocabulary acquisition
3.9 Interrater reliability
Chapter Four RESULTS and DISCUSSIONS
4.1 Results
4.1.1 Effects of task type and involvement load on L2 vocabulary acquisition on the immediate test
4.1.2 Effects of task type and involvement load on L2 vocabulary acquisition on the delayed test
4.2 Discussions
4.2.1 A significant effect of task type on the acquisition of L2 receptive vocabulary knowledge only
4.2.2 No significant effect of involvement load on the acquisition of L2 vocabulary knowledge
4.2.3 No significant interaction between task type and involvement load on the acquisition of L2 vocabulary knowledge
Chapter Five CONCLUSIONS
5.1 Major findings
5.2 Implications
5.2.1 Theoretical implications
5.2.2 Pedagogical implications
5.3 Limitations and suggestions
REFERENCES
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