Effects of Glosses and Involvement Loads on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition

摘要

The present study aims at exploring the effects of different glosses and involvement loads on incidental vocabulary acquisition among non-English majors.It investigates whether glosses and involvement load would have an effect on the learners’immediate word gain and promote their word knowledge retention.The experiment chooses 96 non-English freshmen at a university in Si Chuan Province.Results indicate that Translation task with multiple-choice glosses is the most effective,and reading comprehension task with single glosses is the worst.