Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention in Print Text vs. Digital Media Environments

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18450%2F23%3A50019854" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18450/23:50019854 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/1/30" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/1/30</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/systems11010030" target="_blank" >10.3390/systems11010030</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention in Print Text vs. Digital Media Environments

Original language description

In the context of very current trends in digital language education generally supported by governments and educational institutions, it seems necessary to evaluate the efficiency of these tools from various points of psycholinguistics and applied linguistics, mostly when it comes to learning a foreign/second language (L2). Therefore, this paper aims to evaluate vocabulary retention in L2 when using print text in contrast with digital media. The research was conducted among 122 participants who were university students and were divided into two groups to learn 60 new phrasal verbs; one group of them using a standard print text, the other using the same text displayed and annotated on their digital devices. There were two memory tests after four weeks of studying the four sets of phrasal verbs, i.e., 15 verbs a week, and another test after another month to evaluate students’ memory retention of the given vocabulary in time. The results clearly show a slight but clear discrepancy in these two groups in favor of the group using the print text in both tests performed. The findings of this study suggest that students can retain L2 vocabulary better in conditions where they have access to printed vocabulary and if they can make notes, highlight or write their translation in their native language. However, these findings should be verified from other perspectives as well to obtain more reliable data. © 2023 by the authors.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Systems

ISSN

2079-8954

e-ISSN

2079-8954

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

"Article number: 30"

UT code for WoS article

000916206800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85146763019