Researching Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language

Incidental language acquisition is the language that is learned informally, outside the constraints of the typical classroom, and vocabulary is one of the key elements in language learning and knowledge. This unique text is the first overview and hands-on methodological guide for researching second language incidental vocabulary acquisition.

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Mark Feng Teng is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Languages and Translation at Macao Polytechnic University. He is the author of Language Learning through Captioned Videos: Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition (2021), co-author of Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition (2023), and co-editor of Theory and Practice in Vocabulary Research in Digital Environments (forthcoming, 2025).

Barry Lee Reynolds is Associate Professor of English Language Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Macau. He is sole editor of Vocabulary Learning in the Wild (2023) and co-editor of Innovative Approaches in Teaching English Writing to Chinese Speakers (2021) and English Literacy Instruction for Chinese Speakers (2019).

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Editors*List of contributors*

Preface Mark Feng Teng

Foreword ****Batia Laufer

1. Introduction to Researching Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language

Mark Feng Teng

Part I: Pedagogy

2. Incidental vocabulary learning from extensive reading

Paul Nation and Rob Waring

3. Incidental vocabulary learning from watching audio-visual input

Maribel Montero Perez, Tetyana Sydorenko, and Lizz Huntley

Part II: Methodology

4. Methodological features of studies of incidental vocabulary learning

Stuart Webb

5. Cognitive/behavioral methods for investigating incidental vocabulary acquisition

Kathy Conklin, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, and Manuel F. Pulido

6. Incidental learning of multi-word expressions: methodological considerations and future directions

Suhad Sonbul and Anna Siyanova-Chanturia

7. Data science and incidental vocabulary learning

Clarence Green

Part III: Individual differences

8. Understanding teachers' and learners' perceptions of incidental vocabulary learning: another piece of the puzzle

Averil Coxhead

9. Factors affecting incidental vocabulary learning

Mark Feng Teng and Takumi Uchihara

10. Motivation, task-induced involvement load and incidental vocabulary learning

Christine Muir and Pawe Szudarski

Part IV: Future directions

11. Meta-analytic studies of second language incidental vocabulary learning

Akifumi Yanagisawa

12. Bridging intentional and incidental vocabulary learning

Frank Boers

13. Concluding remarks on researching incidental vocabulary learning in a second language

Mark Feng Teng

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