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- Title
Motivational Strategies, Task Effectiveness and Incidental Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary.
- Authors
Ajideh, Parviz; Rahimpour, Massoud; Amini, Davoud; Farrokhi, Farahman
- Abstract
Current approaches to L2 motivation view language learning motivation as situated, dynamic and task-dependent (Pawlak, 2012). Despite the widespread recognition of motivation as a crucial variable in L2 acquisition, few studies have focused on the effect of motivational involvement of learners in an instructional setting, such as task-based language teaching context, on learning achievements. This study aimed at probing the effect of motivational strategies (Dornyei, 2001b) applied to the pre-task phase of task implementation on short-term and long-term retention and ease of activation of L2 vocabulary acquired incidentally as a result of engagement with a reading-while listening task. Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) revealed that motivational strategies had an enhancing effect on both retention and ease of activation of L2 vocabulary upon the immediate post-test. However, the enhancement was not observed for long-term acquisition since there was a considerable decay of retention and ease of activation upon the delayed post-test. The results confirm the effectiveness of task-specific motivation in improving linguistic achievements. Nevertheless, it is argued that motivational strategies cannot be a single substitution for cognitive strategies.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC motivation; SECOND language acquisition; VOCABULARY; MULTIVARIATE analysis; ANALYSIS of covariance; SCHOOL dropout prevention; COGNITIVE Strategy Instruction
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 5, p1044
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4304/jltr.4.5.1044-1052